Plantation drives under the theme “One Beat Guard One Village” were conducted at village Badanoo, Brevi, Kallar & Kotekabu of Dharamsal Block in Sunderbani Forest Range.
Dogar Nath, Sarpanch Panchyat Brevi, and other PRI members, Students with a number of villagers took part in the drives.
Pardeep Kumar, Beat Guard Brevi, Krishan Lal, Beat Guard Kallar & Abdul Ghani, Beat Guard Dharamsal conducted the drives with the help of Block Forest Officer Dharamsal, Rajinder Dev Sharma and other staff members.
Scores of fruit, medicinal and fodder plants of different species are planted and distributed among the participants.
Similar plantation drives were also conducted in Peli, Phall, & Gandeh Villages of Kangri Block. Tooshi Devi, Sarpanch Panchyat Nah Bishav Nath Lamberdar, Om Parkash, Lamberdar, Surjeet Kumar Lamberdar of respective villages along with PRIs members, Students and other local public participated in the plantation drive at their respective places.
The plantation drives were conducted by Block Forest Officer, Kangri S. Didar Singh along with the active support of Narvind Kumar, Beat Guard Kangri & Kuldip Kumar, Beat Guard Bhajwal along with other Forest officials.
The Sarpanches, PRI’ members and general public of the area lauded the efforts of Forest department for increasing the green cover of the area and thanked Vivek Verma, Conservator of Forests West Circle Rajouri; Satyendra Maurya, Divisional Forest Officer Nowshera and Sudesh Kumar, Range Officer Lamberi/Sunderbani for organising these plantation drives for generating awareness among the villagers about the importance of forests and it’s direct relation with the rainfall and other climatic factors which directly influence the farm productivity.