The Telangana governments’ ambitious Telanganaku Harita Haram has been a big show off by the political leaders and the officials what with none showing interest in protecting the planted saplings.
The officials and elected representatives showed more interest in planting saplings and not in ensuring their growth.
It is found that not even 40 percent saplings have survived under Haritha Haram. Officials say that the incessant rains hit the Haritha Haram in the district.
There was a shortage of saplings to supply for planting and majority of the saplings have not grown to the minimum level needed to plant them. The district administration has struggled to plant nearly 1.36 crore sapling before the August 15 in the district.
Only 2.86 crore saplings, of a target of 4.22 crore, have been planted so far in the district and the remaining 1.36 crore saplings would be planted before the August15.
Participating in the video conference with the Chief secretary Rajiv Sharma, collector M. Jagan Mohan said they have fixed tree guards to only 2.8 crore saplings out 2.86 crore saplings planted and they have sent proposals to the state government for sanctioning Rs 15.36 crore for tree guard to the remaining saplings.
The collector said the incessant rains affected planting saplings under Haritha Haram and added that they were making serious efforts to achieve the target.
The district administration is trying to supply 1 crore stumps of various including teak trees due to unavailability of saplings in the plantations and also 7 lakh saplings of fruits to the people to plant them in their areas.
District administration is also trying to replace the dried up saplings with the fresh ones across the district. Efforts are on to purchase tree guard costing Rs 85 from Nagapur.
Committees have been formed with the officials concerned at mandal level to assess the survival rate of the saplings planted under Haritha Haram so that they assess the real picture of the success of the scheme.
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