Green India Challenge in Assam, to plant one crore saplings in Assam by 2030

Green India Challenge (GIC) aims to plant one crore saplings in Assam by 2030. Forestman of India and Padmasri awardee Jadhav Payeng participated in the tree plantation programme organised by the Green India Challenge in Tamalpur in Assam. Local MLA Jolen Daimary along with hundreds of citizens also planted the saplings.

Speaking on the occasion, Jadhav



Payeng said that protection of nature and environmental education should be taught as a mandatory subject in the school curriculum. Majority of people were not aware of the dangerous consequences of nature’s destruction. They were not aware how environment conditions in the world were rapidly changing for the worst and how they were threatening the existence of humanity, he said.