PIONEER NEWS SERVICE/ Dehradun
To mark the World Environment Day, the State Women Empowerment and Child Development department conducted a simultaneous plantation drive in about 20,000 Anganwadi centres spread across Uttarakhand. Explaining the objective behind the programme, the minister Rekha Arya said that environment protection was not just a government responsibility but of the society as a whole.
The Anganwadi workers and their assistants planted saplings along with local children, their mothers and others, giving priority to fruit-bearing, shady and medicinal plants.
The director of the department, Prashant Arya informed that the responsibility of taking care of the saplings planted on the day in each Anganwadi centre has been entrusted to those working in the respective centres.
On this occasion, the officers and employees of the department along with the Anganwadi workers took oath to protect environment and resolved to cooperate in keeping the State clean, green and beautiful through such initiatives in future as well.
