{"id":338385,"date":"2022-07-11T01:40:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T07:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=338385"},"modified":"2022-07-11T01:40:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T07:10:38","slug":"delhi-govt-launches-15-day-mega-plantation-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-govt-launches-15-day-mega-plantation-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi govt launches 15-day mega plantation drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Monday launched a 15-day mega plantation drive to further increase the green cover in the national capital.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Van Mahotsav&#8217;, which started from the Central Ridge, will culminate with the plantation of one lakh saplings at Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary on July 25, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Around 35 lakh saplings and shrubs will be planted in Delhi this year.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and other ministers will participate in the &#8216;Van Mahotsav&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Members of legislative assembly (MLAs) will lead the drive in their respective constituencies on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre had given the Delhi government a target of planting 28 lakh saplings in 2021-22. The city ended up planting 35 lakh saplings.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Forest Survey of India&#8217;s latest report, Delhi&#8217;s green cover has increased from 21.88 per cent to 23.06 per cent of its geographical area in the last two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Monday launched a 15-day mega plantation drive to further increase the green cover in the national capital. The &#8216;Van Mahotsav&#8217;, which started from the Central Ridge, will culminate with the plantation of one lakh saplings at Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary on July 25, he said. Around 35 lakh saplings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":338386,"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\/338385"}],"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=338385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338387,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338385\/revisions\/338387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/338386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}