Labour Minister and district in charge for Dharwad Santosh Lad has said that a weeklong district-level campaign for ‘Green Dharwad’ will be held till July 7 during which it has been planned to plant saplings of various species.
He was inaugurating the district level ‘Vana Mahotsava’ (tree plantation) programme organised jointly by the district administration, zilla panchayat, Forest Department, and Higher Education Department at the Higher Education Academy on Haliyal Road in Dharwad on Saturday. He also launched the ‘Koti Vruksha Andolana’ planned to be implemented through seed balls.
During the weeklong campaign, saplings of local varieties would be planted at vacant spaces in forests, non-forest areas, premises of government offices, educational institutions, hospitals, industrial estates, religious organisations, universities, tank bunds, and other places, he said.
