District Magistrate Promotes Green Bihar to mark World Environment Day

Patna District Magistrate Jitendra Kumar Sinha in Patna on Friday inaugurated the social forestry program at Panchayat level to mark the World Environment Day at a seminar organized at the Bharatiya Nritya Kala Mandir.

In his inaugural speech, Sinha said that for any development to take place, a healthy debate with varying opinions was a good sign. "Constructive ideas can from any corner of the society and for this, a good debate should always be welcomed, he said.

Emphasizing the need for plantation of more trees in both rural and urban areas, the District Magistrate said trees also generated employments in the region and could help attain the goals set under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA).

NREGA district Joint Development Commissioner Rajiv Kumar Singh, in his speech, also lamented the disappearing of trees in the last couple of decades.

"Our ancestors handed over a world that was green and beautiful but we, because of our selfish needs, destroyed it and pushed it to the brink of global warming. It is now our duty to leave this planet to our children in a condition that is better than what it was when it was handed over to us," Singh said.

In a Power Point presentation, Dr. Rajan Sinha, the Director of Center for Disaster Management, explained the need for a minimum of 22% of the earth's area to be green. "This number has dwindled to a meager 8% posing immense threat to the planet," Sinha said adding there was a need to plant nearly 7 billion trees on the earth to match the population of the world.

Similar events were held at Patna Planetarium, Sri Krishna Science Center, Shivam Educational and Welfare Association, College of Commerce, and other schools in Patna.link