The 70th state level Vanamahotsava programme – 2019 was organized at Jolaibari in South Tripura on Tuesday where hundreds of students from various schools took part along with the local population.
The programme was inaugurated by chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb by planting sapling along with local MLAs and officials of the Forest department including PCCF Dr Alind Rastogi and it aimed at spreading the message that each one should plant and protest at least one sapling.
Addressing the gathering Deb said that everyone should come forward and plant trees for a better tomorrow.
He said that the State Government along with the Centre has taken initiative to ease the forest laws like putting bamboo out of the forest list and declaring it as grass so that the common people of the State can use it without much paper works and complication.