Manipur Govt to Plant 65,000 Saplings on 'World Environment Day'

Imphal, May 29, 2019:

The Education Minister of Manipur, Thokchom Radheshyam, has announced that the Education Department in collaboration with the Forest Department and All Manipur Working Journalist Union (AMWJU) will be celebrating the 'World Environment Day' on 5 June 2019 by planting more than 65,000 tree saplings in Manipur.

He also said that there will be a review during the festival of Van Mahotsav in July and another in November for the number of surviving saplings.

While addressing the media persons in his office Chamber at the New Secretariat, North Block, the Minister said that this year, the Education Department is all geared up to observe the World Environment Day with mass tree plantation in 1,042 schools belonging to government, private and CBSE categories along with 80 colleges run by the State.

He explained that the initiative is jointly taken up by the Education Department with the Forest Department is an effort to instil in children the sense of responsibility to care for the environment.

Radheshyam elaborated the plan and guidelines on how the tree plantation will be carried out and stated that the tree saplings will be provided by the Forest Department of Manipur. There will be tie up between the nodal officers, teachers and officers of the Directorate of Education for the distribution of the saplings, he said.

He said that the task for preparation of plantation sites/pits, number of saplings will be ensured by the schools prior to the plantation. Names of students/ class or names of the teachers and other persons may also be projected/pasted on a suitable material against the trees so planted, he added.

The Minister also read out the some species of different seedlings available in the Forest Department that would be planted on the World Environment day. Some of the plants are Oak, Tairen, Yongchak, Heijuga, (Walnut); Pine, Thuja Pareng (Alder), Chorphon (Indian Olive); heitup, Bokul etc.

The Distribution of the tree saplings in all schools and colleges is targeted to be completed before the 3rd July, 2019 by the Forest Department.

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