10 Crore Saplings To Be Planted To Check Desertification Lucknow: Drought-prone Bundelkhand will now get 10 crore saplings from government's kitty. In what could be the biggest plantation target set forth ever for a region, the July 1 GO aims at improving the green cover of seven districts of the region, supposedly driven by a thought that increase in green cover would check desertification and groundwater depletion. The orders to meet the target have been conveyed down the official ladder from the higher echelons under the