The district has planted a total of over 1.22 crore saplings during the Haritha Haram programme till date from July 8 against the target of four crore saplings, said Collector Neetu Prasad.
Participating in the programme at Kondagattu JNTU at Veldurthi village along the shores of Godavari on Tuesday, the Collector said they would continue planting saplings for another 20 to 25 days and achieve the target.
She said people from all sections were taking part in the programme in the district.
She asked people to protect the saplings and water them regularly.
The Collector said they were distributing fruit-bearing saplings to people and teak saplings to farmers to plant along the bunds. Jagtial legislator T. Jeevan Reddy, Sub-Collector K. Sashanka and others were also present on the occasion.
Mass plantation drive
NTPC Ramagundam organised a mass plantation drive at Telangana Super Thermal Power Project stage-I site as part of Haritha Haram programme in Ramagundam on Tuesday.
NTPC executive director Prasant Kumar Mohapatra, deputy chief inspector of factories Praveen Kumar, general manager (technical services) S.R. Bhavaraju, general managers U.K. Dasgupta, V.M. Rajan, M.N. Prasad, Y. Srinivas, Mathew Varghese and others participated.
Since its inception, the NTPC Ramagundam has planted over 13.50 lakh saplings and has developed green cover in the industrial area.
