The phase-wise monsoon tree plantation drive has kicked off across Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
According to an official source, during the drive, over ten million saplings are proposed to be planted throughout the territory under a reported set target.
The saplings would be made available free of cost at all the official nurseries of the AJK Forest Department and the sales points, the source added.
A source pervy of matter source told APP that the tree-plantation campaign was being launched under phase wise programme in the entire state comprising top mountainous, hilly, semi-hilly and plains terrain, by all the related government functionaries including the AJK Forest Department for which all necessary arrangements for distribution of saplings through the stipulated points across AJK had been made.
The target of planting ten million saplings across AJK during the campaign had been fixed by the departments with the collaboration of the masses including students and volunteers of national and international NGOs, it added.