Drive to check green cover fall

  • 01/12/2001

  • Tribune (New Delhi)

Recommending nearly 1000 trees for felling under the rights of villagers by a panchayat in a year is a matter of serious concern. A panchayat has decided to start a sapling plantation drive making it compulsory for each family in a panchayat to plant 10 saplings on their own land. Thus, care of saplings will be done by the families themselves and those families who will not take part in the drive will not take part in the drive will not be given timber felling rights. For the effectiveness and successful implementation of the drive, the panchayat has been divided into three zones of Udaipur-Hamirpur, Khaali-Kheel ka Mour and Kainthadi villages in Himachal Pradesh.