Residents pledge to plant 1,000 saplings during monsoon

Various government departments and agencies celebrated World Environment Day here on Friday by planting saplings and holding awareness programmes.

Environmentalist and ENT surgeon Mahanthesh Tapashetty inaugurated the celebrations by planting a sapling on KIMS Hospital premises. While 15 saplings were planted on the premises on Friday, the participants took a pledge to plant 1,000 sapling during the monsoon.

In an initiative by the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community’s Hubballi hub, saplings were planted at the HDMC Garden in Lingarajnagar South. Mayor Ashwini Majjagi launched the initiative aimed at rejuvenating the park.

At Moon Maternity, Hubballi, the ‘Life Plants’ programme under which the hospital plans to plant a sapling for every birth at the hospital was launched.

Subsequently the hospital staff planted saplings on the hospital premises.

In Dharwad, District Principal and Sessions Judge M. Ramesh Rao said that the revival of the organic farming should be part of the environmental protection movement in the country.

Inaugurating a World Environment Day function, organised by the District Legal Services Authority and the district administration and others, he said that organic farming had taken a back seat as farmers opted for more modern methods.

The need of the hour is to retain organic farming and give rise to a healthy society, he said. In Bidar, various schools and organisations organised the World Environment Day. Students of Gnyana Sudha Vidyalaya participated in a ‘Green Run’.