Surat (Gujarat) [India], June 28 (ANI): Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil on Sunday led a large-scale plantation drive in Surat, Gujarat, saying the initiative was impressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s enchantment to residents to plant extra timber.
Speaking to ANI, Patil highlighted that the drive noticed huge participation, with college students and neighborhood employees, and he oversaw the planting of 25,000 timber as a part of a broader effort to advertise environmental sustainability.
‘Prime Minister Narendra Modi impressed the nation, urging individuals to plant timber as a lot as potential. Responding to this name, the Bharatiya Janata Party organised a large program with college students and neighborhood employees taking initiative on this plantation drive.’
Earlier this week, Patil attended the inauguration occasion of all 33 newly put in crest gates of the Tungabhadra Reservoir in Hosapete of Vijayanagara district. Chief ministers and ministers from three states participated within the programme organised on the Munirabad Government High School grounds in Koppal district.
On June 16, Assam Minister for Irrigation, Agriculture and Parliamentary Affairs, Pijush Hazarika, referred to as on Union Minister CR Patil and Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan throughout his go to to New Delhi.
During his assembly with Patil on the latter’s official residence, the Assam Minister briefed him on Assam’s huge irrigation potential pushed by the mighty Brahmaputra River and the state’s intensive river community.
He knowledgeable the Union Minister that Assam possesses an irrigation potential of practically 27 lakh hectares of agricultural land, whereas irrigation schemes at the moment cowl round 7 lakh hectares. The discussions centered on strengthening irrigation infrastructure and increasing irrigation protection in keeping with the Central Government’s imaginative and prescient of ‘Har Khet Ko Pani’.
Union Minister Patil appreciated Assam’s immense potential within the irrigation sector and guaranteed all potential assist from the Union authorities for additional growth of irrigation services within the state. (ANI)