Live performances to encourage planting during Haritha Haram

HYDERABAD: Cultural troupes will stage performances across the state to encourage people to plant saplings during the Haritha Haram programme that is to be launched next month.
At a meeting organised at Ravindra Bharathi on Tuesday, officer on special duty in the chief minister's office, Priyanka Verghese said 40 crore saplings would be planted this year as per chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's instructions.Verghese said every cultural troupe member had the ability to influence hundreds of people to plant trees. "Awareness should also be created on the need to protect the saplings," she said.
Director of culture Mamidi Harikrishna said the green cover would be increased in the state through Haritha Haram and urged people to participate in it. At the programme at Ravindra Bharathi, nearly 550 artistes participated. They were explained how the message to plant saplings should be spread.
MLA and chairman of Telangana Kala Saradhi Rasamayi Balakishan urged the shepherd community which began receiving sheep as part of the sheep distribution programme that was launched on Tuesday to participate in the Haritha Haram and plant saplings and take steps to protect them.