♚Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday said the annual sapling plantation drive in the national capital will begin on July 9 from the campus of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute.
﷽The city government is close to delivering on its promise of planting two crore saplings in the national capital in five years, he said.
🎶"Before the state elections, we promised to plant two crore saplings. We planted 32 lakh in 2020-21, 35 lakh in 2021-2022, 50 lakh in 2022-23 and the target is 52 lakh in 2023-24," he said at a press conference.
❀"We are confident that we will end up planting more than two crore saplings in the five-year period starting 2019," he said.