SSB Lucknow unitplants 25,000 trees

Lucknow: Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) unit in Lucknow planted over 25,000 trees at its Mohanlalganj base unit on Sunday.
Inspector general of police, SSB, Ratn Sanjay and other senior officers along with their family members participated in the plantation drive. The SSB conducted the event on the call of the ministry of home affairs (MHA) which had instructed the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) to conduct a plantation drive in their areas. SSB Lucknow unit in the last one year has planted 1.88 lakh trees.
Officiating commandant Rohit Pandey said that as part of the campaign, units are also developing Saheed Vatika/ Smriti Vatika and nurseries. “Seven such nurseries have been developed in units through which trees of earlier plantations which could not survive are being replaced,” said Pandey. He also said that family members of martyrs would be invited and honoured on upcoming Police Commemoration Day.
SSB inspector Prahlad Kumar said that to spearhead the plantation drive, SSB is supporting and working with the civil society in planting trees in public spaces like schools, colleges, hospitals, hostels.
“To encourage people and for instilling a sense of responsibility among them, citizens have been made ‘vrikshamitra/ paryavaran mitra’. Six hundred such vrikshamitra/ paryavaran mitras have been nominated and also given certificates, he said.
In a similar effort, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) eastern frontier also planted 500 trees along the picnic spot road area on Sunday. The plantation drive of ITBP was led by IG, ITBP, SK Sharma.