Bottu Pettu, Chettu Pettu.
Warangal (West) D Vinay Bhasker has launched an innovative initiative ‘Inti Intiki Mokka’ (distributing saplings to each household) in a bid to make Telangana Haritha Haram programme much more effective.
Warangal: Warangal (West) D Vinay Bhasker has launched an innovative initiative ‘Inti Intiki Mokka’ (distributing saplings to each household) in a bid to make Telangana Haritha Haram programme much more effective.
What is interesting in this initiative is, the MLA’s wife, Revathi, joined her husband on the day of the programme’s launch and visited more than 300 households of Waddepally village. She offered sindhoor to women while her husband handed over the saplings as part of their slogan ‘Bottu Pettu Chettu Pettu’
The couple followed by the MLAs’ entourage has attracted the village residents, who received them with warmth at their doorsteps. They also stopped the passersby on the roads and distributed saplings. Besides the village, the saplings have also been distributed in 49, 50 and 51 divisions of the GWMC.
Waddepally Development Committee president D Jitender members Ramnath Kishan, Nageshwar Rao and others joined the MLA.
Speaking to The Hans India Vinay Bhasker said ‘there has been good response to our effort and it is what we needed’.
For the success of Haritha Haram programme the involvement of the public is very much essential that is why the initiative is launched. Namesake distribution of saplings might not yield good result. Making door-to-door visit and handing over saplings could make the citizens feel responsible, he explained.
He informed that meetings with 18 corporators and party workers in Warangal (West) constituency is convened during the next two days. They would be asked to prepare a data on the requirement of trees in terms of number and variety of the saplings. In accordance with that data the saplings would be procured.
After that a massive door-to-door sapling distribution drive would be taken up in the constituency until the end of second phase of Haritha Haram.
‘On the concluding day, it is planned to hold a massive plantation programme at Padmakshi Temple premises in Hanamkonda with involving around 25,000 people. Discussions are on with the party workers and concerned people in this connection’, Vinay Bhasker revealed.
He reminded that during this summer similar kind of programme was taken up promoting rain water harvesting. ‘Door-to-door campaigns, colony meetings held educating people to construct percolation pits and residents responded promptly. Now they are yielding results with rain waters recharging their borewells’ he added.
By: James Edwin
