05 June 2019, Kathmandu
The World Environment Day is being celebrated with the theme ‘Beat Air Pollution’ across the world today . In Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli planted a sapling of avacado to celebrate the special day in Singha Durbar.
PM Oli had initiated a campaign ‘One Nepali, One Fruit Sapling’ last year that encourages every Nepalis to plant a tree of their favorite fruit wherever possible.
The government in its newly released budget for the fiscal year 2019/20 has announced plans and policies to mark the new fiscal year as a year of afforestation.
The government has also adopted a policy to produce at least 30 per cent of the fruits saplings in the government nursery to extend the agriculture forest and to plant fruit saplings in the bare land.
All the government agencies, local units, non-governmental agencies and citizens have been urged to implement this plan and programme of the government.
At the event council of ministers, Chief-Secretary, secretaries and chief of the security agencies had been participated.
