{"id":313022,"date":"2019-06-05T13:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313022"},"modified":"2019-06-05T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T14:04:07","slug":"school-nursery-initiative-is-proposed-to-be-launched-soon-says-prakash-javadekar-on-world-environment-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/school-nursery-initiative-is-proposed-to-be-launched-soon-says-prakash-javadekar-on-world-environment-day\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018School Nursery initiative is proposed to be launched soon\u2019, says Prakash Javadekar on World Environment Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-313023 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/prakash-jav-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/prakash-jav-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/prakash-jav-503x420.jpg 503w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/prakash-jav.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Minister for Information &amp; Broadcasting and Environment, Forest and Climate Change\u00a0Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said that his ministry will soon launch an initiative called School Nursery across the country in which school kids will plant a seed, nurture the sapling and on his\/her annual result would take the plant to be a trophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn this initiative, the local forest department will provide the necessary support, and through this initiative, we want to nurture a perpetual bond between school kids and plants.\u201d, Javadekar said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As a part of the campaign #SelfieWithSapling launched today Javadekar planted saplings in the premises of Environment Ministry in New Delhi along with the Minister of State in the Environment Ministry Babul Supriyo, renowned cricketer Kapil Dev, Bollywood actors Jackie Shroff and Randeep Hooda and noted singer Malini Awasthi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They all gave out the message of environment protection and importance of planting a sapling. Javadekar urged all to join and plant a sapling and post the selfie with the sapling on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Later interacting with the media, the Union Minister stressed that \u2018Jan Bhagidari\u2019 is integral towards tackling the environmental issues and the environment protection has to be a people\u2019s movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFor the amount of oxygen an individual requires, he should plant at least 8-10 saplings in his lifespan\u201d, stressed the Union Minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Union Minister also praised the commitment of Union Transport Minister Nitin Gakari for pledging to plant 125 crore trees on both sides of National Highways, which runs through thousands of kilometers across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The World Environment Day (WED) urges governments, industries, communities and individuals to come together to explore renewable energy, green technologies and improve air quality in cities and regions across the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The celebration of this day provides us with an opportunity to broaden the basis for an enlightened opinion in preserving and enhancing the environment. World Environment Day is the biggest annual event for positive environmental action and takes place every year on 5th June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Information &amp; Broadcasting and Environment, Forest and Climate Change\u00a0Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said that his ministry will soon launch an initiative called School Nursery across the country in which school kids will plant a seed, nurture the sapling and on his\/her annual result would take the plant to be a trophy. \u201cIn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313024,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313022\/revisions\/313024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}