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YSR to kick-start HUDA's green drive

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JULY 23. The Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) is taking up a month-long plantation drive with the launch of the `One day two lakh plantation' programme by the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, at the Gandiguda reserve forest in Shamshabad mandal of Ranga Reddy district on July 26.

Informing this to newsmen on Friday, the HUDA Chairman, D. Sudheer Reddy, said the drive would be taken up in 11 mandals, covering 109 panchayats outside the municipal corporation limits.

Awareness campaign

`Haritha Yatra', a week-long educative awareness campaign, would be taken up from July 29 or 30 with the participation of all political parties to drive home the message that plantation was the best solution for pollution. It would cover 290 km, covering 54 villages, he added. Certain facts about the usefulness of plantation would be explained to people in the form of songs in Telangana dialect, skits and other programmes.

The HUDA Vice- Chairman, Ashok Kumar, said as many as 20,000 students from class eight to Intermediate would join the plantation programme. NCC members, personnel from various institutions and local people would also take part. Mr. Sudheer Reddy said they proposed to increase the green cover from the present 26 per cent to 28 per cent by next year in the HUDA jurisdiction, thus reaching the saturation level.The focus now was on degraded reserve forest area, which only had shrub jungles, Mr. Bhoopal Reddy, Executive Director, Green Hyderabad Project, said.

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