Assam Environment and Forest Minister Rakibul Hussain today said the government will distribute and plant 3.2 crore trees in the next one year across the state with the help of the panchyats and NGOs.
Announcing the decision at an event to mark the World Environment Day, Hussain said, "From today, we will start distributing the trees in a mass scale. Our target is to plant 3.2 crore saplings across the state till the next season."
The government will engage the village panchayats and some NGOs to carry out the planned task, he added.
"We will cover around 18,200 hectares of land for this purpose. We will engage the 2,202 panchayats and the process will start from next week," the Minister said.
Along with the Pollution Control Board and Assam Science Technology and Environment Cell, the Environment and Forest Ministry today organised an event to celebrate the World Environment Day here.
Meanwhile, school children observed World Environment Day at Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's official residence by planting saplings where his wife Dolly Gogoi and son Gaurav Gogoi participated.
The Chief Minister is currently away in New Delhi.
Assam police personnel today in a departure from their routine duties of safeguarding the law took a pledge to protect and conserve nature and wildlife for survival of humanity.
The police personnel were apprised on the occasion of World Environment Day by IGP L R Bishnoi about how forest cover in Assam and Northeast were fast dwindling, posing threat to survival of wildlife.
The function was organised by prominent bio-diversity conservation organisation Aaranyak in collaboration with Assam chapter of Institutions of Engineers in India here and all the participants took a Green Oath in the programme.
