CURATED BY – GAURAV SINGHAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Saharanpur. A meeting of the District Environment, Tree Plantation and Ganga Committee was held in the Collectorate Auditorium under the chairmanship of District Magistrate Manish Bansal. In the meeting, the District Magistrate directed all the departments to select land soon and provide information for the target of 33,44,280 set for tree plantation 2025. Along with this, while selecting land for tree plantation, all the departments were instructed to give priority to the land near water sources. While reviewing the plantation done last year in the district, instructions were given to complete geo tagging to all those departments who have not done 100% tagging yet.

District Magistrate Manish Bansal discussed with the experts on the model made for cleaning and beautification of Kailashpur Wetland and directed for better disposal. For this, DPRO was also instructed to hold a meeting with the Sub-District Magistrate Sadar. DM Manish Bansal gave instructions to speed up the campaign being run to collect plastic in the district. The District Magistrate gave instructions to collect the waste plastic lying in open grounds in urban and rural areas. Under this program, a campaign to collect plastic should be run in all blocks, wards and villages, in which officers of all departments should also participate. He gave instructions to the Municipal Corporation, bodies, blocks and gram panchayats for more waste plastic collection. He instructed all the bodies to take appropriate action to use the collected plastic. DFO Shubham Singh, PD DRDA Pranay Krishna, District Panchayat Raj Officer Alok Kumar and other concerned officers were present in the meeting.