Aim to increase forest cover to 33%: Sircilla Collector

​Sircilla: The sustenance of the mankind is dependent on the plants that we grow and sufficient amount of rainfall can be witnessed in an area, where there is 33 per cent of forest wealth, stated District Collector D Krishna Bhaskar.

He, along with Joint Collector Yasmine Basha and District Revenue Officer Shyam Lal Prasad, distributed saplings to the people, who attended the Grievance Day at the Collectorate here on Monday.

Speaking on the occasion, the Collector said that due to lack of enough percentage of forests and plants on the earth, the people have to face water scarcity due less amount of rainfall, which may further lead to famine.

Due to massive deforestation, the agriculture sector is in turmoil. Scarcity of water is one main reason for the farmers to incur heavy losses and unable to bear the financial burden, many of the farmers were ending their lives.

Deforestation also effected bio-diversity. To prevent the condition becoming worse and to restore the lost forest wealth, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao introduced the prestigious project Telanganaku Haritha Haram in the State, informed the Collector.

The government is taking all measures to increase the forest cover from the present 24 percent to 33 per cent in the district, by planting about 80 lakh saplings during the n third phase of Haritha Haram programme, he explained.

Two phases were implemented successfully in the district and with the same spirit all people, officials, employees and peoples’ representatives irrespective of political affiliations must participate in third phase of the programme to make it grand success, the Collector urged.

District Welfare Officer Saraswathi, District SC Development Officer E Rajeshwari and District Public Relation Officer Mamindla Dasharatham were present along with others.