{"id":62704,"date":"2016-05-04T08:19:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T08:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=62704"},"modified":"2016-05-04T08:19:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T08:19:12","slug":"mou-signed-between-ministry-of-railways-and-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/62704","title":{"rendered":"MoU signed between Ministry of Railways and Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, May 3 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>In the august presence of Minister of Railways,\u00a0Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu\u00a0and Minister of State (IC) for Environment, Forest and Climate Change,\u00a0a Memorandum of Understanding\u00a0(MoU) regarding \u201cplantation of trees alongside Railway Track on Railway Land Boundary\u201d\u00a0was signed today i.e. 2nd May, 2015 between Ministry of Railways and Forest Department of Haryana &amp; Punjab of Haryana. The Minister of State for Forest Department was specially present on the occasion. Chairman, Railway Board, Shri A.K. Mital, Special Secretary &amp; DG (Forest), Shri S.S. Negi, Member Engineering, Shri V.K. Gupta and other Board Members, and other senior officials were also present on the occasion. The\u00a0MoU\u00a0was signed by\u00a0Shri Pankaj Saxena, Chief Engineer \/P&amp;D, Northern Railway on behalf of Railways whereas it was by Dr. (Mrs.) Amrinder Kaur, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on the occasion, Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu said that natural resources like water and trees are priceless god gifted natural resource without which one cannot imagine life thus proper use and conservation of the same needs intense care.\u00a0 He said that care and conservation of the trees is not only the responsibility of the Ministry of MOEFCC but it is the responsibility of every citizen of India to protect trees and thus Railways initiated the step of providing railway land for the use of plantation. He said that Railways wants to take integrated steps to maintain in the field of forest, water, energy, solar system etc etc. and thus a specific Directorate of Environment has recently been established in the Railways Board to address all the environmental issues.\u00a0 He said that all States should be sensitized to establish Nurseries in their respective State.\u00a0 Railway Minister said that plantation alongside the Railway Track will stop soil erosion which has been a reason of rail accidents in recent past. Railway Minister further stated that this Plantation Programme would be further expanded and all railway colonies will also be done with Plantation.\u00a0 He further said that before plantation it has be ascertained which trees are to be planted as per ecosystem of that area. He said that instead of exotic trees indigenous trees should be grown according to the climate. \u00a0\u00a0He said that natural resources are of utmost importance and thus Railway will also start rain water harvesting not only in big buildings but in small building also. He said that Railways will include lots of volunteers also in this programme for a grand success.\u00a0 He said that Railways will work as a Territorial Army to implement this programme and RPF personnel will also be used for plantation programme.\u00a0 He said that a Coordinating Committee of both Railway and State Govt. will be set up at Zonal and Divisional Level Railway for proper coordination with the MoEFCC.\u00a0 He made an appeal from \u00a0\u00a0NGOs and Religious Groups to participate in this Nobel cause of planting tree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on the occasion, Shri Prakash Javadekar,\u00a0Minister of State (IC) for Environment, Forest and Climate Change said that today\u2019s programme is in line with Prime Minister\u2019s Swacch Bharat, Swacch Harit Bharat.\u00a0 He said that Indian Railways and Highways have approximately 86000 KM and 1,50000 KM alongside track which can be used to the best for the plantation work.\u00a0 He said that the Ministry of MOEFCC holds a big portfolio and thus is committed for sustainable development which cannot be fulfilled without afforstation programmes all over India.\u00a0 He said that apart from Railway Ministry, Ministry of MoEFCC is working on Public Private Partnership for such other plantation programmes for upgradation of environment.\u00a0 He said that for development purposes trees have been cut on various occasion but their re-plantation programme has always been 99 percent successful.\u00a0 He said that their Ministry will issue directives to all States to establish Nurseries where plants of more than 8 feet will be grown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, May 3 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211;\u00a0In the august presence of Minister of Railways,\u00a0Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu\u00a0and Minister of State (IC) for Environment, Forest and Climate Change,\u00a0a Memorandum of Understanding\u00a0(MoU) regarding 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