Nikhil Bhardwaj Tribune News Service Ludhiana June 26 The SHO of Dakha police station Inspector Prem Singh Bhangu is on a “Green mission” to commemorate the death of his son who died due to Covid. To keep the memories of his son alive he has started distributing saplings to people. Inspector Bhangu has been giving free plant saplings to residents especially children on their birthday and has now extended his initiative to newly-married couple asking them to plant saplings after completing their marriage rituals. Taking to Ludhiana Tribune the SHO said his son Jasparambir Singh Goldy (26) lost his life to coronavirus on September 11 2020 five days after his marriage. A few days later he decided to start a campaign in the memory of his son for the sake of contributing to the environment. Initially he started planting saplings of various sorts at river banks on roads at police stations and at places wherever he found space for plantation. Recently he started giving 11 saplings to children on their birthday but with an assurance from parents that they would plant and take care of the saplings like their children. The SHO asserted that in the past two months he had distributed and planted over 2600 saplings and would continue this campaign till his last breath. “Cities have been turning into concrete jungles and plantation is the only way to revive the green cover” Bhangu added.

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