Kerala plants one crore saplings on World Environment Day  

Known Malayalam actor Mohanlal participated in the sapling of plants programme at a college here.

Governor P Sathasivam planted a sapling at the Raja Bhavan compound as part of day’s celebrations.

Schools, local self-government bodies and voluntary associations took part in the plant sapling programmes of the government under ‘Green Kerala Mission’.

Importance of this year’s tree plantation is that government has done away with acacia and eucalyptus that draw a lot of groundwater and distributed only fruit bearing and environment friendly trees.

A campaign titled ‘Connecting People to Nature’ was also launched besides starting a programme to cut down trees that were harmful to the environment.

Meanwhile, BJP as part of its green campaign ‘Jalswaraj’, distributed more than 10 lakh saplings across the state for planting.