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 Saharanpur Manish Bansal. In the meeting, District Magistrate Manish Bansal reviewed the plantation done in the district and directed all those departments to complete geo tagging which have not done 100 percent tagging yet. He directed to make the report available by the end of December by doing inter-departmental verification of the plants planted during Tree Plantation 2024. He said that after doing self-verification of the plants, make the report available by January 05. He gave strict instructions to the Executive Officers on the low progress in plastic collection and directed to bring information about where the plastic has been collected and given in the next meeting. DM Manish Bansal directed to expedite the campaign being run to collect plastic in the district. Children should be rewarded by organizing a Shramdaan program in all schools once a month. The District Magistrate directed to collect the waste plastic lying in the open grounds of urban and rural areas. Under this program, a campaign should be run to collect plastic in all blocks, wards and villages in which the officials of all departments should also participate. He directed the Municipal Corporation, Body, Block and Gram Panchayats to collect more waste plastic. Along with this, he also directed to take out a funeral procession of the collected plastic. He directed the Municipal Corporation to take appropriate action to dispose of the collected plastic.

District Magistrate Manish Bansal directed the DFO and DPRO to prepare a DPR by making a better action plan for cleaning and beautification of Kailashpur Wetland. He also directed to stop the salary of the absent officers in the meeting. DFO Shubham Singh, District Panchayat Raj Officer Alok Kumar, Executive Officers and other concerned officials were present in the meeting.