NANKANA: Prime Minister Imran Khan launched ten billion tree plantation drive in Nankana on Saturday.
Prime Minister Imran Khan plant a sapling at Forest Reserve in Balloki to mark the ‘Plant for Pakistan Day’ drive.
In his tweet
on the eve of launch of Ten Billion Tree Plantation Drive Prime Minister Imran Khan has said the government is reclaiming mafia encroached land and converting it into forests and wild life parks for future generations
to fight climate change and pollution.
We
are launching our #Plant4Pakistan programme &
amp; reclaiming mafia encroached land, converting it into forests and wild life parks for our future generations
to fight climate change and pollution. pic.twi
tter.com/yCaaahr2uB
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) February 9, 2019
Deputy Commissioner Nankana Raja Mansoor Ahmed while addressing to media representatives said that ten thousand saplings would be planted by two thousand five hundred school children along with Prime Minister to launch the tree plantation campaign.
He said the district administration has retrieved twenty five hundred acres of government land from illegal occupants.
He said a forest reserve would be developed on fifteen hundred acres of land while a Wildlife Sanctuary would be built
on the remaining one thousand acres of retrieved land.
