हिंदी
Under the patronage of Chief Justice, High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Patron in Chief J&K Legal Services Authority (JKLSA), Gita Mittal, and under the guidance of Justice Rajesh Bindal, Executive Chairman JKLSA, JKLSA in co-ordination with Forest Department has came up with Miyawaki method of afforestation to grow urban forests and spread the green cover in the UT. Miyawaki is a unique and different technique by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki that will help to build a dense forest. The aim is to make sure that plants growth is 10 times faster and the resulting plantation is 30 times dense than usual.
The first of its kind campaign started with plantation of a mini forest of around 500 saplings of various varieties in a strip of 5 Kanal of land at village Nainsu near Devak in Udhampur district adjacent to Industrial Area. The staff of DLSA Udhampur and Forest Department Udhampur other than locals step forward to feed, protect and preserve the enclosure of forest. In today’s programme, the participants were informed that if someone has even a small strip of 200 yards of land, he can come forward to raise a mini forest over the same and the Legal Services Institutions and Forest Department across the UT of J&K would be there for all the kinds of help and guidance.
Those present in the programme included Mohan Lal Manhas, Chairman, DLSA, Udhampur, Sandeep Kour, Secretary DLSA, Udhampur, Shweta Jambial, DFO, Udhampur, PLVs of DLSA Udhampur and officials of District Forest Department Udhampur.
It is important to mention to make sure the protection of existing natural environment and to repair and replenish the damage already caused to the ecology, J&K Legal Services Authority is stressed on increasing the green cover by undertaking various steps. Under such initiatives, thousands of fruit bearing and non fruit bearing saplings were planted by all the DLSA’s in collaboration with Forest Department.
