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Recently the Chief Secretary chaired a meeting of the Forest Department to assess the efforts made in treating the degraded areas through plantation or other conservation measures.

He gave out that against the given target of 672 events and 40,786 saplings under ‘Ek Ped Shahidon Ke Naam’, the Department carried out this campaign quite exhaustively in all the areas to surpass targets and planted 67,840 saplings in more than 1800 events organised across the districts of the UT.

In his presentation to the PCCF (HoFF), BK Singh informed the meeting that the Department has set an aspirational target of planting 150 lakhs of saplings under Ek Ped Maa ke Naam and Ek Ped Shahidon Ke Naam collectively. It has also a target of planting 100 lakhs more saplings under other afforestation campaigns including Capex and CAMPA.

The meeting was further apprised that till date the Department has achieved the plantation target of about 38 lakhs under ‘Ek Ped Maake Naam’ campaign and around 28 lakh plantations under other schemes like CAMPA and Capex here.

Regarding the plantation stock in nurseries, it was added that in 290 nurseries maintained by the Department, there is a planting stock of 290.19 lakh saplings out of which 114.98 lakh are ready for plantation.

Moreover it was revealed that an area of 2150 sq km of degraded forests has been prioritized for treatment using remote sensing out of which an area of 552sq km has been treated during the last 5 years.