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Forest cover goes up by 3.67 percent in Telangana : Minister Indrakaran Reddy

Ministers A Indrakaran Reddy, Puvvada Ajay Kumar

State Forest Minister A. Indrakaran Reddy today said that the forest cover in Telangana had gone up by 3.67 percent due to the implementation of Telangana Ku Harithaharam Scheme . He said that they had planted 217.406 crore  plants in the state so far under the program .

Replying to questions raised by MLAs during the question hour of the ongoing budget session, he said that the programs being held by the state government for the protection of environment were yielding good results in the state. He said that the survey of India had announced there the forest cover had gone up by 3.68 percent in the state . He also said they the food and agriculture organization and UNO had recognized the state capital as the Tree city of India. He said that as against their target of planting 230 crore plants under the Harithaharam program, they were able to plant 217.406 crore plants in the state. Reddy also said that they had shifted their progress on the protection of the plants and added that they had amended Panchayat Raj and Municipal Act to pretext 85 percent of the total plants.

He said that they were allocating 10 percent as green budget in the  annual budget of villages and municipalities to nourish and protect the trees. He said that as against the total geographical area of 2.77 crore of the State , Telangana has 66.66 lakh acres of the forest land . He said that the forest cover constitute 24.05 percent of the total area of Telangana as against the 21.34 percent forest cover of the country. 

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