PM Imran Khan launches 10 bn ‘Tree Plantation Drive’

Author: Web Desk

NANKANA: Prime Minister Imran Khan launched ten billion tree plantation drive in Nankana on Saturday.

Prime Minister Imran Khan plant a sapling at Forest Reserve in Balloki to mark the ‘Plant for Pakistan Day’ drive.

In his tweet on the eve of launch of Ten Billion Tree Plantation Drive Prime Minister Imran Khan has said the government is reclaiming mafia encroached land and converting it into forests and wild life parks for future generations to fight climate change and pollution.

Deputy Commissioner Nankana Raja Mansoor Ahmed while addressing to media representatives said that ten thousand saplings would be planted by two thousand five hundred school children along with Prime Minister to launch the tree plantation campaign.

He said the district administration has retrieved twenty five hundred acres of government land from illegal occupants.

He said a forest reserve would be developed on fifteen hundred acres of land while a Wildlife Sanctuary would be built on the remaining one thousand acres of retrieved land.

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