Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh on Tuesday led a mass plantation drive inside the sacred Kangla Fort in Imphal.
The plantation site inside the Kangla fort was also named as new orchard ‘Nura Heikol‘.
The day’s initiative was taken up as part of chief minister’s Green Manipur Mission which was formally launched on June 22 last. In the day’s event, around 700 indigenous fruit bearing tree saplings were planted in the drive organized by Kangla Board in association with Department of Art and Culture, Department of Forest and Directorate of Environment.
Observing that Langol forest and Kangla, both located in and around Imphal, are often regarded as the lungs of Imphal city because main oxygen supply to the capital city is done by the trees growing at these two places, he opined that as such, the Government has a plan to grow more and more trees and develop thick forests at these two places and other areas.