CURATED BY – GAURAV SINGHAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Saharanpur, In line with the instructions of District Magistrate Manish Bansal, a meeting of District Environment, Tree Plantation and Ganga Committee was held in the Collectorate Auditorium under the chairmanship of Chief Development Officer Sumit Rajesh Mahajan. In the meeting, the Chief Development Officer directed all the departments to select land soon and provide information for the target 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 before the next meeting to all those departments who have not done 100% tagging yet. He directed that information about the nature, area and status of the work done on the banks of Yamuna river under Green India Mission and other schemes for the revival of rivers in the district should be provided by all the departments so that it helps in DPR implementation and plan formulation. Sumit Mahajan gave instructions to take necessary action for the cleaning and beautification of Kailashpur Wetland. He gave instructions to speed up the campaign being run for collecting plastic in the district. He gave instructions to collect the waste plastic lying in open grounds of urban and rural areas. He gave instructions to Municipal Corporation, bodies, blocks and gram panchayats for more waste plastic collection. He instructed all the bodies to take appropriate action for using the collected plastic and provide information about the collected plastic. PD DRDA Pranay Krishna, DC NRLM Indrajit Singh, District Panchayat Raj Officer Alok Sharma, SDO Samvedna Chauhan and other concerned officials were present in the meeting.