Deputy Commissioner District South Karachi Muhammad Asif Jameel has said that around 50,000 saplings will be planted across the city in coming two months especially targeting the under-privileged and low-income residential areas.
He made this announcement at the launch of plantation campaign in District South. Office of District South's Deputy Commissioner and National Forum for Environment and Health (NFEH) are jointly organizing the campaign. Asif Jameel further urged all relevant institutions and agencies should fully participate in this campaign.
He said plantation campaign was launched to make Karachi completely green and peaceful city. DC South called for more such plantation campaigns in the city on emergency basis in order to secure lives of several living organisms facing serious threat to their survival because of serious issue of air pollution.
NFEH president Muhammad Naeem Qureshi said a large number of saplings had been planted in various parts of Karachi under the ongoing drive of his forum to increase tree cover in Karachi and make its environment clean. The plantation campaign of the forum has been carried out since the year 2014. Qureshi said under the campaign of his forum, training and plant saplings would be given to the concerned citizens and institutions for increasing greenery in the city. He said present plantation campaign would be concluded by April, 2018.
He appealed to the concerned people and agencies to fully take part in the current plantation campaign in Karachi.
Assistant Commissioner of Saddar area in the city Sara Javed said plantation would be done in entire District South of the city. She said, specially, low-income and under-privileged areas of the district would be targeted under the campaign including Lyari, old city areas, and Sultanabad. He said conditions of public parks in the District South were being improved by the district administration.
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