MPs from all parties plant saplings to support Green India Challenge
The Hindu
The Green India Challenge (GIC) campaign started by TRS MP Santosh Kumar Joginapally will plant one lakh saplings in New Delhi to ease out pollution in the future, and several Parliament members vowed
The Green India Challenge (GIC) campaign started by TRS MP Santosh Kumar Joginapally will plant one lakh saplings in New Delhi to ease out pollution in the future, and several Parliament members vowed to support the initiative.
The initiative was launched in collaboration with Delhi Municipal Corporation, where MPs from different parties and States participated and planted saplings at Narain Industrial Area in Karol Bagh Zone in North Delhi Municipal Corporation jurisdiction.
The MPs who planted the saplings included Jairam Ramesh (Congress), Sanjay Singh (AAP), Binoy Visvam (CPI), Anil Desai (Shiv Sena) apart from TS and AP MPs, including Vijaysai Reddy, Avinash Reddy, Mopidevi Venkataramana, Krishna Devarayulu, P. Ramulu, and KR Suresh Reddy, among others.
A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.