‘Go green tree plantation’ campaign

LAHORE

Punjab Emergency Services (Rescue 1122) Director General, Dr Rizwan Naseer inaugurated “Go green tree plantation campaign” through Rescue Mohafiz corps of volunteers at the Emergency Services Academy, Lahore in an effort to establish healthy and environment-friendly communities in Punjab.

He said the campaign was the contribution to the "Prime Minister’s Green Pakistan Programme” which was aiming to plant 100 million trees across the country, including 14 million trees in the Punjab.

DG Rescue Punjab kicked off the campaign in Emergency Services Academy to make environment-friendly training institute thus providing a conducive learning environment to under-training cadets.

Planting a sapling while formally launching the campaign, he said that over 3,000 trees would be planted in and around the Emergency Services Academy and Rescue 1122 Headquarters and asked all the officers, staff, cadets and Rescue Mohafiz volunteers to participate in this campaign in their respective localities. 

The DG also directed all the District Emergency Officers of Punjab to make all areas in and around Rescue stations clean and green by planting trees inside and outside their operational offices. He said trees were essential and considered sign of life while rescuers were known as life saviours in Pakistan. He appreciated the officers; staff, cadets and Rescue Mohafiz volunteers on their participation in such healthy and environment-friendly step. “We have to make this academy a Centre of Excellence through all means and today’s initiative of tree plantation would prove to be a milestone, where emergency services personnel from all over Pakistan would wish to visit, stay and learn,” he added.