HYDERABAD: More than three crore saplings will be planted in the one-hour ‘Mukkoti Vrisharchana’ programme on MAUD minister KT Rama Rao’s birthday on July 24 across the state.
The task is being taken up by Green India Challenge (GIC) by involving nearly one crore people including TRS party workers right from ordinary members to ministers, NGOs, and people from different areas and professions.
“During chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s birthday, we had targeted about one-crore sapling ‘Koti Vruksharchana’ plantation in February. We succeeded in planting about 1.7 crore in a single day. About 1,500 saplings from Kadem nursery were brought for the programme in February. Now three crore saplings are available in our state,” Green India Challenge founder and MP Joginapally Santosh Kumar said.
Of the three crore saplings, one crore will be planted in Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority jurisdiction, and two crore will be planted in districts.
As KTR is also working president of TRS, ministers, MPs, MLAs and MLCs have already started preparations in their respective districts and constituencies. For instance, Ibrahimpatnam MLA Manchireddy Kishan Reddy identified three land parcels each with 10 acres area exclusively for the plantation programme. Many leaders are preferring plantation in Miyawaki style to plant more saplings in less space.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also agreed to join the green movement of Green India Challenge during the monsoon on the request of TRS MP Santosh Kumar.
On July 4, over 10 lakh saplings were planted in one hour under Green India Challenge on the occasion of MLA Jogu Ramanna’s 58th birthday in Adilabad district. This achievement was submitted to Guinness Book of World Records challenging the existing record of plantation of 3,03,000 saplings in Turkey in 2019. It also received appreciation certificate from representatives of Wonder Book of Records for successfully executing the task in Durga Nagar region.
Recently, Mahabubnagar set a new Guinness Record for the ‘largest seed ball sentence’ at a programme organised as part of Green India Challenge
