K Chandrasekhar Rao urged common people to take part in the drive to plant saplings (Representational)
Hyderabad:
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao yesterday said he would launch a massive green drive of planting 1,00,116 saplings at Gajwel town near on August 1 as part of the state government's plantation campaign of 'Haritha Haram'.
Mr Rao also said 20,000 more saplings would be planted in the forest lands the same day, according to a release from his office.
Mr Rao said people's representatives, officials, police, students, women, youths, businessmen and common people should take part in the drive to plant 1,00,116 saplings.
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