Green Pakistan: AIOU holds plantation drive

Department provides 500 saplings to university to involve its students and academic staff in the campaign

Green Pakistan, spring tree plantation campaign was launched on Thursday at the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) to motivate the youth to help in reducing pollution in the country.

The event was jointly arranged by the university’s agriculture department, Academic Staff Association and Forest Department, Rawalpindi South.

Vice Chancellor Dr Shahid Siddiqui, while planting the saplings of fruit, ornamental and shady trees at the lawn of the Academic Block announced that the AIOU will play its due role in reducing pollution and making Pakistan green.



The forest department’s officers Saqib Mehmood and Abid Hussain Gondal were also present on the occasion. The department has provided 500 saplings to the university to involve its students and academic staff in the campaign.

The VC  said the university will arrange similar tree-plantation events at its 44 regional campuses across the country.

The AIOU wished to play a leading role in developing green Pakistan, he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 16^th, 2018.