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Lucknow, July 20 (HS). Like previous years, this year also, under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, a large-scale plantation campaign was given top priority in an effort to reduce the threat of increasing global warming across the world. Keeping in mind the intention of the Chief Minister under the call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam', 'Ped Bachao, Ped Lagao Jan Abhiyan-2024' was run on a large scale in the state on Saturday. During this, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated the plantation campaign on the banks of the Kukrail river in Lucknow. Apart from this, the Chief Minister also planted saplings in Prayagraj and Gorakhpur. Governor Anandi Ben Patel planted saplings in Sitapur. At the same time, all the ministers of the state government also planted saplings in different districts. By six o'clock in the evening, 36,51,45,477 saplings were planted in the state, which is more than 1,45,477 of the government's target of 36.50 crores.
Chief Minister congratulated everyoneAfter the unexpected success of 'Plant trees, save trees campaign 2024', Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath congratulated everyone on his official social media account 'X'. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath wrote that in the 'New Uttar Pradesh' of 'New India', the public welfare resolution of planting more than 36.50 crore saplings in a day has been fulfilled today.
This record of gratitude towards nature and Mother Earth shows the immense public engagement with the call of the respected Prime Minister Narendra Modi 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam'. Hearty congratulations and felicitation to all the respected citizens, public representatives, social organizations and the government-administration participating in the tree plantation campaign!
These ministers planted trees here: On Saturday, ministers of the Yogi government participated in the tree plantation program in different districts. Governor Anandi Ben Patel planted trees in Sitapur, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath planted trees in Lucknow, Prayagraj and Gorakhpur. Cabinet Minister AK Sharma planted trees in Mau and Azamgarh, Dharmpal Singh in Bareilly and Badaun, Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi in Ayodhya, Forest Minister Arun Kumar Saxena in Lucknow, Ashish Patel in Sultanpur, Rakesh Sachan in Hamirpur and Fatehpur, Yogendra Upadhyay in Etawah and Farrukhabad, Kapil Dev Agarwal in Kanpur Nagar, Narendra Kashyap in Ghaziabad and Bulandshahr, Rajni Tiwari in Jhansi.
Real time update received on plantation monitoring system softwareUnder the 'Ped Lagao, Ped Bachao Jan Abhiyan 2024' held on Saturday, plantation has been done on a large scale in forest land, defense, railway land, gram panchayat and community land, expressway, road, canal, railway track side, development authority, industrial complex, medical institution, educational institution land, other government land, private land of farmers, private premises by citizens. The most important thing is that to complete the campaign with complete transparency, real time update was received on the Android based plantation monitoring system software from the Forest Department. The Chief Minister had clearly instructed that like the previous governments, the plantation campaign should not be limited to mere paperwork, but complete transparency and effective monitoring of plants should also be ensured regarding it. This is the reason that this year also a complete arrangement has been made for geo tagging of plants. Along with this, the Forest Department has also made full use of technology.