05-06-2025
Over 1 lakh saplings planted across Virudhunagar
Massive sapling planting events were taken up across Virudhunagar district on Thursday on the occasion of World Environment Day.
Virudhunagar Collector V. P. Jeyaseelan inaugurated sapling planting drive at the Eco-Park set up by Ramco Cements at Pandalgudi.
Speaking on the occasion, the Collector said that a total of 1,12,350 saplings were planted in 360 places in the 11 blcoks in the district.
The theme of the World Enviroment day this year was on ending plastic pollution.
'The present developmental activities were posing a major challenge to biodiversity. Climate change, health issues, food and water security and sustainable resources could be retrieved only based on nature-based solutions,' he added.
Virudhunagar district had only 16.8% of green coverage and efforts are being taken to increase it to 33% by planting 1 crore saplings under Green Tamil Nadu Mission.
A consultation on the need to preserve biodiversity at all levels was held on the occasion.
District Revenue Officer R. Rajendran, Special DRO (Land Acquisition for SIPCOT), Sengottaiyan, Project Director (District Rural Development Agency), Dhandapani, Sub-Collector, Sivakasi, N. Priya Ravichandran, governing council member of Tamil Nadu Climate Change Mission, Nirmala Raja, were among those who were present.
