On the directions of CM Yogi, ‘One faucet one tree’ marketing campaign, Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply Department will plant 1 crore fruit bushes

Lucknow: Along with reaching the faucet connections to the agricultural households of Uttar Pradesh, fruit bushes may also be planted in each home. Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply Department is working at a quick tempo within the course of common welfare in Uttar Pradesh. The division has made preparations to begin the most important marketing campaign within the discipline of setting by offering clear consuming water to the agricultural households. In order to make the state greener, the division will take part in an enormous tree plantation marketing campaign from July 16 to 22 by means of ‘Ek Nal Ek Ped’ programme.

In this seven-day distinctive marketing campaign of greenery with pure consuming water to the villagers, greater than 1 crore fruit bushes can be planted. The greatest crew ever can be seen taking cost on the grassroots stage. About 3750 members, government engineers, district coordinators, DCs, officers and staff of 150 ISA companies of all of the clusters throughout the state will play an necessary function on this marketing campaign. Department’s Principal Secretary Anurag Srivastava has issued directions to the departmental officers to plant bushes on a big scale after holding conferences.

The Principal Secretary has entrusted the command of monitoring this grand marketing campaign to the Managing Director of Jal Nigam (Rural) Dr. Balkar Singh. The Managing Director has instructed the officers to replace the plantation report on the portal day by day. Under the Har Ghar Jal Yojana, UP occupies the second place within the nation by offering faucet connections to multiple crore 38 lakh rural households. Now Jal Jeevan Mission will set a brand new document by planting bushes with faucets within the tree plantation drive.

Rural households will take a pledge to guard fruit vegetation
Guava, Drumstick, Pomegranate, Mulberry, Lemon, Jackfruit, Custard Apple, Neem, Peepal, Banyan, Pakad, Jamun, Barhal and different fruit bushes can be planted in each home within the village. Rural households getting faucet connections may also take a pledge to guard fruit vegetation.

135 crore saplings planted in UP in six years
– UP authorities did the work of planting greater than 135 crore saplings in six years
– 80 p.c of the vegetation are at the moment alive
– Target to plant 35 crore saplings within the mega plantation marketing campaign this yr