Jammu|: To promote institutional plantation and to inculcate the importance of growing trees among youth, Department of Floriculture Parks and Gardens Jammu, in collaboration with Department of School Education, on Thursday organised a plantation and cleanliness drive in Government Higher Secondary School Shastri Nagar here under the aegis of “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav”.
On the direction of Principal Secretary School Education Department J&K, B. K. Singh and Commissioner/Secretary Floriculture Parks and Gardens J&K, Sheikh Fayaz Ahmed, the Department of Floriculture, Parks & Gardens Jammu has set the target of organising plantation drives in 75 schools of Jammu Division to commemorate the country’s 75 years of Independence.
The plantation drive was inaugurated by Director Floriculture Jammu, S. Jatinder Singh and Director School Education Jammu, Dr. Ravi Shankar Sharma in presence of CEO, Jammu, Suraj Singh Rathore, Deputy Director Floriculture, Sunil Singh, Principal GGHSS, Shastri Nagar, Geetu Bangotra along with school staff, Floriculture Officers and Assistant Floriculture Officers of the Floriculture, Parks & Gardens Department Jammu.
The Director Floriculture Jammu, while speaking on the occasion, informed that the department has identified fifteen schools for the plantation and cleanliness drive in Jammu district.
The drive is aimed to accomplish the Clean India and Green India Mission of the government and would cover all 75 identified schools of Jammu Province by August 15, 2022.
In his address, the Director School Education urged the students to plant atleast one plant in their vicinity to contribute in decreasing the ill effects of deforestation and Global warming and developing a sustainable environment. He also briefed them about the Indian independence struggle.
To continue this chain, plantation and cleanliness drive was also conducted in GGHSS Nowabad in the presence of the Principal of the school and Assistant Floriculture Officer Atul Sharma, teachers and students of the institution.
