The Namakkal district administration in association with the Forest and other government departments will go all out for increasing the forest cover in the district.
It has been targeted to plant more than three lakh saplings across the district during the current year, said V. Dakshinamoorthy, District Collector.
The sites for raising nurseries for different varieties have already been identified in all the 15 panchayat unions in the district, the Collector said while speaking at the launching of mass sapling planting campaign on the St. Mary’s RC Primary School campus in Marappanayakkanpatti village near here on Monday.
The event was brought up jointly by the State Forest Department and the Rural Development Department.
Specialised training will be imparted to select beneficiaries of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in raising the nurseries shortly, he said. The saplings raised in the nurseries will be planted in across the district and the MNREGS workers will be assigned the job of watering and protecting the saplings till they grow into trees.
Mr. Dakshinamoorthy called upon all sections of society to extend a helping hand for increasing the forest cover, by planting at least two saplings in their households during this year.
During last year about three lakh saplings were planted in the district by the Forest Department and other organisations, he added.
