Haritha Haram is a Telangana government’s open programme today

Hyderabad: Students of various schools and colleges have taken the initiative to plant saplings in and around their premises; the inspiration has come from the Haritha Haram programme which is being launched today at Chilkur, located in Ranga Reddy District by the Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao.

Saritha Haram is a Telangana government’s flagship programme that envisages increasing the forest cover in the state. The primary objective of the programme is to increase the approach to rejuvenating degraded forests, ensuring more effective protection of forests against smuggling, encroachment, fire, grazing and intensive soil and moisture conservation measures following the watershed approach.

In the areas outside the notified forest, massive planting activities will be taken up in areas such as; road-side avenues, river and canal bank, barren hill, tank bunds and foreshore areas, institutional premises, religious places, housing colonies, community lands, municipalities, industrial parks, etc.

The programme aims to plant 230 crore seedlings in the State during the next three years. Out of this, 130 crore seedlings are proposed to be planted outside the notified forest areas. It has also proposed to plant, and rejuvenate the viable rootstock to achieve 100 crore plants inside the forest areas by way of intensive protection of the forests.

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