3.247m saplings to be planted in Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi : Rawalpindi District Administration on the directives of Punjab Government would plant over 3.247 million saplings under ‘Hur Bashar Aik Shajar’, monsoon plantation campaign.

According to a district administration spokesperson, Commissioner Rawalpindi Division Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah and Regional Police Officer, Rawalpindi on July 12 launched the monsoon plantation campaign by planting a sapling here at Gymkhana Club. The Punjab government had issued a schedule for June 28 to August 01 for the program ‘Khidmat Aap Ki Dehleez Par’ under which public sector water tanks were also being cleaned besides changing filters of water filtration plants in the district. She informed that a special plantation campaign titled Hur Bashar Aik Shajar launched here to plant maximum saplings in the district.