With a large number of the local bodies in the State failing to respond to the government’s call to set up mini forests modelled on Miyawaki forests in their respective areas, Local Self-government Minister M.V.Govindan on Sunday ‘challenged’ the local bodies to match the Miyawaki forest in his official residence.
Posting online the photographs of the mini forest set up in 3.5 cents of land behind his official residence, the Minister challenged local bodies to post photographs of the Miyawaki forests they have set up.
As part of the silver jubilee celebrations of the people’s plan programme, the Local Self-government department had in April last year issued an order asking local bodies to turn small unused land in their areas into forests as part of a project titled ‘Janavanam.’
