Over 3m saplings to be planted in Pindi

Rawalpindi District Administration will plant over 3.247 million saplings under ‘Hur Bashar Aik Shajar,’ monsoon plantation campaign. According to a district administration spokesperson, Commissioner Rawalpindi Division Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah and Regional Police Officer Rawalpindi on July 12 launched the monsoon plantation campaign by planting a sapling at Gymkhana Club on Friday.

The Punjab government had issued a schedule for June 28 to August 01 for the programme ‘Khidmat Aap Ki Dehleez Par’ under which public sector water tanks were also being cleaned besides changing filters of water filtration plants in the district. He said that a special plantation campaign titled ‘Hur Bashar Aik Shajar’ has been launched to plant maximum saplings in the district. A special cleanliness programme would be finalised for Eidul Azha, which would start from July 19, he said adding that Eidgahs would be cleaned besides proper arrangements for removal of offal of sacrificial animals during Eid holidays. The performance of all the departments concerned would be monitored daily.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 17^th, 2021.