HM Amit Shah to launch mass tree plantation drive in Ahmedabad today

New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah will launch a mass tree plantation campaign in Ahmedabad on Sunday, alongside the inauguration and foundation stone laying of public infrastructure projects worth an estimated Rs 405 crore.

According to the programme schedule released ahead of the visit, Shah will begin the day at 8.30 a.m. at the Science Dome in Science City in the Sola area, where he will formally inaugurate the city-wide plantation campaign under the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s Mission ‘Five Million Trees’ initiative.

The public programme will also include the inauguration and foundation stone laying of various development projects being jointly undertaken by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) and the Roads and Buildings Department.

The projects being launched and inaugurated amount collectively to around Rs 405 crore and aim to strengthen civic infrastructure across the city.

Following the inaugural event, Shah is scheduled to participate in a series of tree-plantation programmes at various locations in Ahmedabad as part of the mass-plantation campaign.

At 9.30 a.m., he will attend a plantation drive in Thaltej Ward of the Ghatlodia Assembly constituency at the AMC plot located on the Gota-Godhavi Canal in Bhadaj.

The second plantation programme is scheduled for 9.55 a.m. in Sarkhej Ward of the Vejalpur Assembly constituency at an AMC plot near Applewood on S.P. Ring Road in Bopal.

Shah will conclude the morning’s plantation events at 10.25 a.m. by attending a tree plantation programme in Stadium Ward of the Naranpura Assembly constituency.

The event will be held at the NDDB plot opposite the Wadaj BRTS corridor near Gandhi Ashram.

The plantation programmes form part of AMC’s Mission Five Million Trees campaign, which aims to expand the city’s green cover through large-scale community participation.

The civic body, along with AUDA and the Roads and Buildings Department, is also using the occasion to launch multiple public infrastructure projects across Ahmedabad.

Shah, who represents the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency in Parliament, is expected to participate in all four scheduled events during his visit to Gujarat on July 12.

–IANS

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