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NDMC holds 25th Sunday plantation drive under ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’
New Delhi: The New Delhi Municipal Council held its 25th consecutive Sunday plantation drive at Amrit Kal Niwas, Jor Bagh, with Vice Chairman Kuljeet Singh Chahal leading residents and officials in planting…
The Story in Brief
New Delhi: The New Delhi Municipal Council held its 25th consecutive Sunday plantation drive at Amrit Kal Niwas, Jor Bagh, with Vice Chairman Kuljeet Singh Chahal leading residents and officials in planting saplings. The campaign, inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call, has run every Sunday without interruption.
Chahal said the drive has become a public movement and announced a year-long Green Calendar for weekly plantations across NDMC areas. A special event is planned for World Environment Day on June 5. Horticulture, sanitation, roads and water supply departments will jointly maintain the saplings.
The Indian Opinion
A weekly sapling drive with mothers' names is warm symbolism, but Delhi's real test is whether these trees survive the summer and the civic machinery that often forgets them. The NDMC promises cross-departmental maintenance; that claim will be judged next March when survival audits appear. Till then, count live saplings, not planted ones. A tree's survival rate, not ritual repetition, is the honest scorecard for this campaign's green credentials. Will the council publish it? That is the question that matters, not yet another Sunday photo op.
Source: millenniumpost.in
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