T police planted 12 lakh saplings: DGP

Hyderabad, July 14: Telangana Director General of Police (DGP) Anurag Sharma said today that Telangana police had so far planted 12 lakh saplings across the State as against the expectations of 10 lakh saplings. Planting Mago saplings at the Octopus Training Command Centre here on Thursday along with other senior police officials, the DGP said that no other chief minister or any other State in the country had promoted the Haritha Haram program for promotion of greenery and environment shield like the Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. This credit goes to him. Policemen have owned up the Harita Haram as their own domestic exercise and their enthusiasm cannot be stopped for planting few more thousand plants in the coming next few days. The DGP said the Telangana police have always been at the forefront in all the social cause and community needed activities often being announced by the State Government. Earlier the Police participated in the Mission Kakatiya program. The police also played a role in cleaning of hospitals in the Swachch Telangana campaign and also contributed their might for the Mission Bhagaritha program ‘All these show how Telangana police are not only effective in law and order maintenance but vanguards of people friendly programs “, he said . The DGP said , police men are also human beings who were aware of the intrinsic value and significance of tree plantations .The department plans to appoint men to protect the saplings planted under Harita Haram at all the Police stations so that the future generations would enjoy the fruits of the greenery and pollution free environment . Inspired by the DGP’s participation several media friends also planted saplings. When a four year old son of a daily labourer at the Octopus campus was enthused about tree planting, the DGP encouraged the boy to plant one mango sapling at the same venue. Addl. DGP Krishna Prasad asked every citizen to take pride and plant trees and become partners in the ambitious task of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. Nagi Reddy, IGP, said in some districts police adopted some villages for implementing the Harita Haram program. Prominent Police officials who participated in the program were: Satyanarain, Gopi Krishna, Anjani Kumar, Govind Singh, Sandeep Sandilya, Soumya Mishra, Sanjay Kumar Jain, Srinivas Reddy, Akun Sabharwal and M. Ramesh.