Badlega India
India took the climate change issue seriously this time. As we did something that created a new Guinness World Record. 250 kms away from Lucknow, in Kannauj, public officials distributed millions of saplings to volunteers. And they successfully planted 50 million trees over 24 hours! Feels great, doesn’t it?
More than 800,000 people volunteered for the mass plantation drive and it included students, lawmakers, government officials, housewives and volunteers from non-profit organizations.
Another amusing fact - The previous record was with Pakistan for planting 847,275 trees in 2013. So we beat them.
The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav reportedly said, “The world has realized that serious efforts are needed to reduce carbon emissions to mitigate the effects of global climate change. Uttar Pradesh has made a beginning in this regard”.
This may be a possible trick to drive attention from all odds by Akhilesh’s govt as elections are approaching. Anyway brilliant idea!
