NANKANA:
Prime Minister Imran Khan launched ten billion tree pl
antation 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 Pl
antation Drive
Prime Minister Imran Khan has said the government is reclaiming mafia encroached land and converting it into fo
rests and wild life parks for future gene
rations to fight climate change and pollution.
We are launching our #Plant4Pakistan programme & reclaiming mafia encroached land, converting it into fo
rests and wild life parks for our future gene
rations to fight climate change and pollution. pic.tw
itter.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 pl
antation campaign.
He said the district administ
ration 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.