- Majhi Vasundhara campaign launched
Wardha. Promotion of trees is the need of the hour, in such a situation, the city council administration has started the work of counting trees in different parts of the city under Majhi Vasundhara Abhiyan 2.0. For this work women of Bachatgat were appointed under De Nulam Department. Through them, the information of trees in various wards of the city is being collected and uploaded daily through the app.
Counting of trees is being used for the first time in the city, after the completion of this work, the information about the number of trees in public and private places in different divisions will be available with the city council, through this, by promoting new and old trees in the city. Ease of taking initiative as ‘Green City’ is being claimed.
Counting of 2,000 trees completed
From 6th March, this process of counting of trees is being done in various divisions of the city. An app has been given to the women members of the savings group appointed for this. Through the app, photographs of all such trees of 50 years old heritage and new ones have been taken and the information of the premises can be obtained. These days the work is going on a little slow due to increasing sunlight. So far the work of counting and gathering information about 2,000 trees has been completed.
Initiatives to give employment to women
The city council administration has taken a special initiative to provide employment to women in the work of counting trees. Under the de Nulam department of NAP, 9 women of Bachatgat have been appointed for the work of counting trees, instead they will be given an honorarium of Rs 350 per day. It has been recently that the Chief Officer Rajesh Bhagat discussed with the appointed women in the city council and learned their problems, during this time he instructed to complete the work of counting of trees at the earliest.
Illegal felling of trees will be banned
Many times people do illegal felling of trees without taking anyone’s permission, after this the evidence is also erased after cleaning the premises completely, in such a situation, action against the concerned due to non-availability of concrete information to the city council. As a result, the number of trees in the city has decreased in the last few years, but after the enumeration of trees, illegal felling of trees will be stopped as well as it will be easy to promote old trees.
The city will benefit from the campaign in future
After the completion of the enumeration, there will be a lot of benefit in the future for the promotion of trees, for this, the work of gathering information about all the big and small trees in the city should be done properly, information has been given from this point of view, the work will be continuously reviewed.
-Rajesh Bhagat, Chief Officer-Wardha.