By: AswathyP
Prime Minister Imran Khan will kick off the biggest tree plantation drive in Pakistan’s history today as the country plans to plant 3.5 million saplings in a single day.
Over a million volunteers of the Prime Minister’s Tiger Force will also plant trees as part of the government’s ’10 Billion Tree Tsunami’ initiative, marking the ‘Tiger Force Day’.
In a message on Saturday, the prime minister had said he has also asked the members of parliament, ministers and chief ministers to participate in the plantation drive.
Expressing hope that the drive will turn into the “biggest tree planting campaign” in history, he said: “The target is 35 lakh trees in a day, though we will try to exceed it.”
According to details, to participate in the plantation drive volunteers have taken charge of their roles and divided into different teams to dispense their duties.
Following the prime minister’s directives, the distribution of 350,000 saplings has been completed so that they can be planted today.
Special Assistant to PM on Youth Affairs Usman Dar in his message ahead of the campaign, asked opposition politicians Shehbaz Sharif, Bilawal Bhutto, Khawaja Asif and others to join the plantation drive.
“The Sindh government should [join us in] favour of national interest,” the politician had said.
Dar said the prime minister will also be in the field along with other volunteers and the general public tomorrow, adding the drive will begin from Islamabad under the premier, while CM Punjab Usman Buzdar will commence it from Sialkot.
He added that civil society, district administration, forestry department and the citizenry should work together to make the campaign successful.
