Environment: Launch of Meghalaya One Citizen, One Tree Initiative

The ‘Meghalaya One Citizen One Tree’ campaign, an initiative of the Government of Meghalaya, was launched on June 2019 to mark World Environment Day. With the State fast losing its forest cover, the campaign aims at people’s involvement in planting more trees. All districts in the State were covered in the mass plantation drive wherein all indigenous plants raised by the community across the State were provided to citizens who wanted to participate in the campaign. In all, 460 villages across the 46 community and rural development blocks planted 1,000 saplings each. Besides this, a million saplings were planted in 306 spring sheds and catchment areas across the state. The planting was overseen by the state’s soil and water conservation department in collaboration with the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development’s (NABARD) regional office in Shillong.