Staff Reporter, Guwahati, September 9: Environment & Forest Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary today formally launched the series of activities as part of Amrit Briksha Andolan campaign at Veterinary College Playground at Khanapara. The first event under the World Record Event launched today was the longest line of potted seedlings arranged in spiral pattern in a 22 km line with 3.5 lakh saplings. The seedlings would be distributed among the public on September 10 for the next set of events. Amrit Briksha Andolan is striving to plant 1 crore commercially viable tree saplings in a single day and make a world record. But apart from that, there are other initiatives that are taken to make several additional world records. The objective of the campaign is to promote a tree based economy in Assam and enable people to derive economic benefits by growing commercial trees. Speaking at the programme, Forest Minister Patowary said that Assam Government is striving towards increasing forest cover in the state from 36 percent to 38 percent. This campaign is envisaged by Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma to enable people to take ownership of these commercial trees and derive benefits, he said. Informing that 49 lakh people have already registered themselves on the portal for planting 1 crore saplings, Patowary congratulated forest officials for this campaign. He also elaborated on 9 world records targeted through the Amrit Briksha Andolan campaign and he expressed confidence that all records would be achieved. Adjudicator of Guinness World Records Prabin Patel said that there are strict guidelines which must be followed to achieve a world record and he congratulated Environment & Forest Department, Govt of Assam for taking up such a mammoth exercise. Finance Minister Ajanta Neog, Tea Tribes Welfare Department Minister Sanjay Kishan, Additional Chief Secretary Ravi Shankar Prasad, PCCF & HoFF MK Yadav, DC Kamrup Metro Pallav Gopal Jha and other dignitaries were present at the meeting.
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