DGP appeals people of Punjab to join PP in fighting global warming
Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, July 12-
A day after CM Bhagwant Singh Mann gave a clarion call to enhance green cover in the state DGP Gaurav Yadav on Friday planted a Bottle Palm sapling at Punjab Police Headquarters (PPHQ) here to commence a state-level tree plantation drive under slogan “Aao Rukh Lagayiae, Dharti Maa nu Bachayiae”.
Terming this initiative as an enviroment friendly approach to fight global warming, DGP Gaurav Yadav said that thousands of saplings of different species including Bottle Palm, Maulsari, Amaltas, Teak, Terminalia Arjuna, etc will be planted across all the Police Districts/Units under this plantation drive initiated by the Punjab Police.
Followed by the DGP Punjab, Special DGP Community Affairs Division (CAD) Gurpreet Kaur Deo, Special DGP Human Resource Development (HRD) Ishwar Singh, Special DGP Railways Shashi P Dwivedi, Additional Director Generals of Police (ADGsP) including Dr Naresh Kumar Arora, Ram Singh, SS Srivastava, B Chandra Sekhar, G Nageswara Rao, LK Yadav and Mohnish Chawla and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Headquarter Sukhchain Singh Gill also planted saplings on the occasion. Around 25 saplings of different species were planted at PPHQ.