NANKANA: Prime Minister Imran Khan launched ten billion tree plantation d
rive in Nankana on Saturday.
Prime Minister Imran Khan plant a sapling at Forest Reserve in Ballok
i 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 p
arks for future generations to fight climate change and pollution.
We are launching our #Plant4Pakistan programme & reclaiming mafia encroached land, converting it into forests and wild life p
arks for our future generations to fight climate change and pollution. pic.twitter.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 thous
and 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.
