Industries participating in the Green Visakha Project have been urged by Visakhapatnam district Collector V. Sheshadri to complete the yearly target plantation before the monsoon season ends. Since the rainy season helps saplings survive, plantation at allotted areas by the industries should be planned properly and taken up immediately. He was speaking at a review meet here on Friday. N. Yuvaraj, Vice-Chairman of Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority, and joint Collector K. Praveen Kumar also participated in the meet at the VUDA office. The collector asked the industries to have a dedicated contribution towards achieving the goal. The Green Visakha project was an initiative recommended by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment and forests, headed by Rajya Sabha member T. Subbarami Reddy, as a measure to check pollution. The major industries have agreed, as part of their corporate social responsibility agenda, to plant 40 lakh saplings in a time span of five years and the project was grounded by Chief Minister N. Kirankumar Reddy last year. The target for 2012-13 was to plant 10,75,016 saplings but up to May, 2013, only 7,19,608 saplings could be planted. For 2013-14, the target has been fixed at 8,90,000 saplings. Visakhapatnam Port, steel plant, Hindusthan Shipyard, Gangavaram Port, NALCO, Simhadri Thermal Power Plant, Brandix, IMC, HPCL, Ramky Pharmacity, East India petroleum, Essar Steel India, LG Polymers, Synergies Casting, the Naval Dockyard, CII Corbon India, and 20 other industries are participating in Green Visakha project.