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Government offices and schools to get green cover

Staff Reporter

Education Department to be involved in plantation programme

ANANTAPUR: The district administration has planned to improve greenery in the premises of upper primary and high schools and Government offices with the involvement of the Education Department. The programme has been aptly named as `Anantha Vidyavanam'.

The chairperson of Zilla Parishad, G. Thippeswamy, told newspersons here on Monday that one lakh seedlings of neem, almond, pongamia, amla and jamun will be planted in the first week of August. Saplings of 1.5 to 2 metres height would be planted for better rate of survival.

The MPDOs, MEOs and MRPs would be involved in the plantation programme. The seedlings required for the scheme were ready in different nurseries across the district. One kg of rice would be given for digging each pit under the programme, Mr. Thippeswamy stated. The digging of pits would be completed by Saturday.

`Recharge water'

Meanwhile, the District Collector, Y.V. Anuradha, urged the farmers not to utilise the rainwater stored in tanks and ponds and allow it to recharge the groundwater table. About 15 lakhs of bio-diesel plantation would also be taken up in the current rainy season, she said.

The exercise was already in progress in Pamidi, Kadiri and Nallamada mandals.

The District Water Management Authority (DWMA) had taken up a three-year project to prevent sand migration in Kanekal and Bommanahal mandal, which is locally known as desertification, with an estimated cost of Rs. 80 lakhs. Plantation of shrub variety plants and grass would be taken up for wind obstruction.

She said sand migration was taking place in 68 acres of Government lands and 534 acres of private lands. The private landowners (farmers) were seeking fruit and flower plants like mango and jasmine for plantation on their lands. They would be sanctioned drip irrigation implements. Six villages in Kanekal mandal and three in Bommanahal mandal were affected with sand migration. The Project Director of DWMA, E.N. Srinivasulu, the Zilla Parishad CEO, K. Sripathi Rao and the DEO, Ananda Murthy, were also present.

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