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Hyderabad: This Haritha Haram season, municipalities across the State will be taking up extensive plantation of sandalwood saplings. The municipalities have already placed an indent for six lakh sandalwood saplings with the State Horticulture department. Each sapling would be offered for Rs. 30 to the municipalities and the supplies would commence from July or August, […]
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Hyderabad: Recent times have seen Hyderabad not only gaining more green hues but also ensuring a sharp rise in lung spaces with sprawling parks based on wide and varied themes coming up in different parts of the city. Driven by the State government’s desire to increase green cover and improve key environmental parameters, and at […]
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Hyderabad: Forests Minister A Indrakaran Reddy directed different departments to initiate measures for facilitating contributions by employees, elected public representatives, trade and commerce sectors to Haritha Haram Green Fund from May onwards. The contributions from employees, elected public representatives and other sectors would be deducted from April month’s salary and would be enforced from May. […]
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Hyderabad: With the State Government according top priority for survival of saplings under Haritha Haram, forest department is planning to set up model nurseries to ensure supply of tall saplings measuring two metres in height. To begin with, two model nurseries are being proposed to be set up this year with a cost of about […]
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Hyderabad: The infrastructure in more than 26,000 government schools in Telangana will be upgraded in three years, Industries and IT Minister KT Rama Rao said on Wednesday. Participating in a ‘meet and greet’ programme organised by the Indian American diaspora in San Jose in the US, he urged the NRI community to come up with […]
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Khammam: The district administration has planned to plant 50 lakh saplings in the next phase of Haritha Haram in the district. The District Collector VP Gautham who held a meeting to review Haritha Haram target for 2022, said that in order to make 50 lakh saplings available nurseries have been set up in every gram […]
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Hyderabad: About Rs 932 crore is proposed in the Budget for Telangana ku Haritha Haram, one of the largest efforts anywhere in the world to increase the green cover. As part of this programme, the Government has planted between 2015 and 2022, a total of 243 crore plants. It is not only about planting but […]
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Kothagudem: The District Collector Anudeep Durishetty directed engineering officials to issue notices to contractors for delay in executing integrated vegetable markets works in the district. Speaking at a review meeting on Pattana Pragathi with Municipal Chairpersons and Commissioners here on Wednesday, he expressed anger the delay in the construction of integrated vegetable markets in different […]
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Kothagudem: The District Collector Anudeep Durishetty has directed engineering officials to issue notices to contractors for delay in executing integrated vegetable markets works in the district. Speaking at a review meeting on Pattana Pragathi with Municipal Chairpersons and Commissioners here on Wednesday he expressed anger at the delay in the construction of integrated vegetable markets […]
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Hyderabad: Rakesh Mohan Dobriyal has been given full additional charge as Principal Chief Conservator of Forests following the retirement of R Sobha on Monday. At present, Rakesh Mohan Dobriyal is working as Social Forestry (PCCF) and Nodal Officer for Haritha Haram. Forest Minister A Indrakaran Reddy, Special Chief Secretary Shanti Kumari and other officials from […]
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Hyderabad: Director General of Forests Chandra Prakash Goyal says Telangana’s afforestation programmes are impressive. Speaking to ‘Telangana Today‘ on the sidelines of a national workshop on Effective Implementation and Monitoring of Forestry Activities with Special Emphasis on Campa, Chandra Prakash Goyal said other States can take a cue from the programmes implemented in Telangana. Afforestation […]
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Hyderabad: The State government will start deducting one-time annual contribution from the salaries, honorarium and remuneration of public representatives from April this year for the first-of-its-kind Haritha Nidhi (Telangana Green Fund) created to fund the green movement in the State. The one-time contribution will be deducted every year in April payable in May. The TGF […]
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Hyderabad: Haritha Haram plantation drives helped increase the green cover in Telangana, said TRS Rajya Sabha MP J Santhosh Kumar and added that the total forest cover in the State is inching towards 33 per cent from 24 per cent. Speaking at the Green India Challenge drive on the occasion of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar […]
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Hyderabad: Inspired by Rajya Sabha MP Joginapally Santosh Kumar who initiated the Green India Challenge with the inspiration of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s greening programme Haritha Haram, actors Radikaa Sarathkumar and Sai Kumar planted saplings at Maulana Azad National Urdu University in Gachibowli on Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion, the duo said that the […]
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Hyderabad: The Telangana government’s flagship programme – Haritha Haram – to increase green cover in the State, has proved to be a runaway success with the State placed in the second spot in the country for its increase in forest cover by 632 sqkm. The State achievement aside, Hyderabad has topped the mega cities that […]
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Hyderabad: State government constituted a seven-member State-level Committee on Telangana Haritha Nidhi with Forest Minister as its Chairman to effectively manage the fund and implement plantation activities. Haritha Haram has been launched by Telangana Government in 2015 with a goal of raising a plantation of 230 crores. As on November, 2021 the plantation achievement has […]
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Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Saturday instructed officials to accept claims from tribals and others from November 8 to December 8 for podu cultivation. Village committees should be constituted as per Recognition of Forest Rights (RoFR) Act after convening preparatory meetings at various levels before November 8, he said. The Chief Minister was […]
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Hyderabad: Following Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s appeal, donations of gold for gold plating of the Vimana Gopuram of the Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple in Yadadri continued to pour in from different parts of the State with several politicians and businessmen announcing their donations on Wednesday. Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) announced donation […]
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Hyderabad: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday lauded Telangana State government for taking up plantation as a movement under ‘Haritha Haram’. He suggested that all the State governments should take the initiative in creating awareness among children about environmental protection and tree plantation from the school level. He called for a people’s movement to […]
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Hyderabad: Forest Department will launch an action plan and invite applications from eligible tribals in third week of October to address the Podu lands issue in the State. As announced in the State Legislative Assembly recently, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao directed the officials to initiate necessary measures immediately in this regard. The land survey […]
