HYDERABAD: Padma Shri awardee Vanajeevi Ramaiah announced that he would donate 20 tons of red sanders he had grown in the past few decades for the state government’s Haritha Nidhi.
Ramaiah, who is known as Vanajeevi for planting several thousands of trees for the past few decades along with his wife, met Rajya Sabha MP and Green India Challenge founder Joginapally Santosh Kumar on Wednesday. The Padma Shri awardee said that the challenge before all of us is to face climatic changes and protect the forests. He urged everyone to plant trees to increase the green cover.
The Rajya Sabha MP Joginapally Santosh Kumar expressed his readiness to supply saplings from Green India Challenge programme to Ramaiah in order to plant and distribute plants.
