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Among other departments , agricultural department is supposed to plant 6.51 lakh trees, town planning 1.52 lakh and school education and higher education both 2 lakh each. Of these 23.26 lakh would be planted by the social forestry department, while gram-panchayats would plant 24.7 lakh saplings. AURANGABAD: Employees and staffers from all government and semi-government establishments can come late to office till 1 pm on July 1, provided they produce a photo of them planting trees. The tree plantation should be deemed as one of the major national responsibilities. "We have been encouraging our members to plant maximum number of trees and encourage others in order to meet the target of planting 4 crore trees," G D Kulthe, chief advisor of the forum, said.As far as Aurangabad region is concerned, it has to plant 75 lakh trees..