GHMC, HMDA miss Haritha Haram targets

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA), Suryapet and Sangareddy districts are lagging all others in the plantation of the saplings under the ongoing Telanganaku Haritha Haram (THH) programme.

According to the State Forest Department's progress report on the ongoing plantation of saplings till Wednesday evening was GHMC 10.837 lakh as against 250 lakhs. As far as HMDA is concerned, they had planted 24.150 as against 580 lakh plants.

These two are the second poor performers in the entire State with only two more districts -- Suryapet and Sangareddy. While Suryapet achieved a cumulative percentage of 3.5 against the target, Sangareddy has recorded 3.86 per cent against the target of the plantation of saplings.

The State has fixed a target of planting about 83 crore saplings. Against this, the overall plantation across the State has already crossed its target and the total number of saplings planted as on Wednesday had touched a cumulative percentage of 10.35 per cent against the given target.

Medchal district has recorded planting of the highest number of saplings achieving a cumulative percentage of 48.36, which is highest in the State.

Of the 34 districts, including the GHMC and HMDA areas, 12 districts have recorded less than 10 per cent of cumulative percentage against the target. In 11 districts the progress of plantation under the programme is between 10.5 to 20 per cent.

Bhadradri Kottagudem with 30.43 per cent has stood in the second position after Medchal which stood in the first place achieving a cumulative percentage of 48.36 saplings planted against the target is given to the district. Warangal Rural and Narayanpet districts have recorded more than cumulative percentage of 20 with 24.98 and 20.98 per cent, respectively.

The data also throws light on another important aspect that except the districts represented by three in the council of ministers in Telangana the flagship programme in the districts represented by all others achieved a cumulative percentage of less than 10 per cent.

Chamakura Malla Reddy, the minister who comes from the Medchal, has recorded the highest and stood first in the State.

He is followed by the A Indrakaran Reddy from Nirmal district which has recorded 15.05 per cent and Koppula Eshwar from Dharmapuri Assembly segment of Jagital district standing in the third position recording a cumulative achievement of 13.91 per cent of saplings planted against the target given.

All other districts, including the districts and areas from where Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and Deputy Chief Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali and other ministers come from showed a cumulative achievement of less than 10 per cent of the target of sapling plantation.