Mission 550
PCCF persuades the field staff to green the villages and establish the Guru Nanak Bagichi
By Amrit Pal Brar
Sangrur, 8 June 2019: Celebration of 550th Prakash Purabh of GURU NANAK DEV JI by planting of 550 saplings in each village is the top priority of the forest department. This was announced by the PCCF Jitendra Sharma on Saturday.
Jitendra Sharma said that our department is religiously working to construct the Guru Nanak Bagichi in each village of Punjab successfully. The implementation of the thought of divine seva is already started in every forest division of Punjab.
He also told about the preparedness of the planting stock in 222 forest nurseries to green 12600 villages of our state. He made an appeal to all citizens to come forward and participate in mission to balance ecosystem on mother earth.
The PCCF motivated the field staff of Sangrur forest division to conserve, protect and promote environmental awareness in local people.
Later on, Cabinet Minister Vijay Inder Singla and PCCF re- energies the Mission Tandurast Punjab by planting saplings at village Bhindran to turn out the Nanak Bagichi.
Vijay Inder Singla said that clean environment is our collective responsibility. It is our duty to provide better environment for our future generations. He added that we all are facing same crises of pollution and now it’s time to prepare every citizen as an environmentalist to mitigate the challenge.
The environment education should be part of our school curriculum in Punjab. He accentuated that our students should be engraved for caring of our natural resources and handling the environmental crises.
Our 14 forest nurseries are fully stocked to implement the scheme successfully: Monika Yadav DFO Sangrur
DFO Sangrur, Monika Yadav told that we have 720 villages in Sangrur forest division. Our 14 forest nurseries are fully stocked to implement the scheme successfully and also connected with each village. She also appealed public to download the ihariyali 550 app for the noble target.
The occasion was graced with active participation of social workers, villagers along with the field staff of the forest for craving of clean environment and more plantations in coming monsoon season.
