PIONEER NEWS SERVICE/ Lalkuan
To mark the Harela festival, 5000 saplings have been planted in the Century Mill premises here on Wednesday. These saplings were of different species like Amaltas, Kachnar, Neem, Karonda, Oleander, Gulmohar and Ashoka-all considered important from the environmental point of view.
The Century Mill’s CEO, Ajay Gupta and the general manager of District Industries Centre Pallavi Gupta led the commemorative plantation drive together. The vice president of the mill,
Naresh Chandra said that Century Mill’s target is to plant two crore saplings this year
Pallavi Gupta urged all from the State to be a part of the tree plantation campaign for environmental protection. “We all are part of this Mother Earth. Our existence depends upon the wellbeing of Mother Earth. We can ignore this fact only at our peril,” she warned. The CEO, in his address, exhorted all the staff members of the mill and others to take the plantation seriously. “It is a key to ensuring a thriving environment and human survival on the planet,” he added.
