Summary:
With this move, around 55,000 new environmental friendly species are likely to be planted this year by fresher students who got admission in nine colleges run by the DSGMC. The tree plantation drive will be treated as one of their college projects and marks obtained under the project would be added in annual result . They will be required to undertake tree plantation in college campus, civic bodies land, around their homes, vacant government land and submit the report highlighting the status of the trees planted by them accompanied with photographs on an annual basis. The DSGMC will start distributing free saplings from Sikh shrines namely Gurdwara Rakab Ganj and Gurdwara Bangla Sahib which are visited by largest numbers of devotees daily. The DSGMC procures tree saplings from private nurseries, government institutions like NDMC, MCD, DDA for its free distributions and plans to double the tree plantation target by next five years..