Various government departments and agencies have readied up 43 lakh saplings for distribution to mark the World Environment Day this year.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will formally launch the State-wide distribution as well as the observance at the Pinarayi Convention Centre in Kannur on Sunday.
The seedlings were prepared by the Forest department across 832 nurseries in the State in association with the Local Self-Government department and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) under the ‘Vrikshasamrudhi’ social forestry scheme aimed at undertaking afforestation drive in non-forest areas.
