6,000 native seedlings to be planted along two highway stretches in Pudukottai district

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About 5,000 saplings were planted on  the Pudukottai-Thanjavur nationalist  road  agelong   successful  Pudukottai Forest Division successful  the fiscal  twelvemonth  2024-25.

About 5,000 saplings were planted on the Pudukottai-Thanjavur nationalist road agelong successful Pudukottai Forest Division successful the fiscal twelvemonth 2024-25. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The Pudukottai Forest Division has projected to works 6,000 seedlings of assorted histrion taxon on the Pudukottai-Thanjavur and the Tiruchi-Karaikudi sections of the nationalist highway. 

The seedlings are projected to beryllium planted nether the Green Tamil Nadu Mission on the 2 nationalist road stretches with the duplicate objectives of minimising the interaction of aerial contamination and enhancing greenish cover. The Pudukottai Forest Division has submitted the connection for raising the nursery and planting and attraction of the seedlings to the Green Tamil Nadu Mission authorities. This clip the mandate for maintening the seedlings volition beryllium for 3 years, said an authoritative of the Forest department. The seedlings would beryllium raised astatine the section nurseries astatine Machuvadi successful Pudukottai municipality and astatine Kolathur. 

“The carnal enactment of planting seedlings on some sides of the nationalist road stretches is planned to beryllium undertaken successful the adjacent fiscal year, betwixt October and November 2026, the authoritative added. The Pudukottai Forest Division has planted 5,000 seedlings of assorted autochthonal histrion taxon on the Pudukottai-Thanjavur nationalist road agelong that falls nether its territorial jurisdiction, arsenic portion of the Green Tamil Nadu Mission during the 2024-25 fiscal year, with funds provided by the NHAI. The projected planting of 2,000 much histrion seedlings aims to screen the remaining areas on the Pudukottai-Thanjavur road stretch, the authoritative said.”

The Pudukottai Forest Division planted 5,000 seedlings successful its jurisdiction on the Tirumayam-Manamadurai and Tiruchi-Madurai nationalist road stretches during the erstwhile fiscal year. The attraction of the seedlings on the 3 road stretches by the Forest Department volition past for 1 year, until March 2026, aft which they volition beryllium handed implicit to the NHAI authorities for their care, the authoritative said.

Published - October 23, 2025 05:37 p.m. IST

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