Going green: 40,000 saplings to be planted in cantt

RAWALPINDI:

As part of a recently launched tree plantation drive, 40,000 saplings would be planted in Rawalpindi’s cantonment areas.

Rawalpindi Cantonment Executive Officer Faheem Zafar Khan said the campaign will continue till August 31.

Special stalls have been set up in RCB office, Shah Baloot Park, Roomi Park and Gawalmandi Park and citizens are being provided saplings free of cost. Khan said teams had been constituted to plant saplings of different kinds of fruits, flowers and shady trees at open places, and along roads and public parks to make the surroundings clean and green.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 21^st, 2014.