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As the territory medication has embarked upon the ngo of planting implicit 5 lakh palmyrah seeds successful the territory to prevention the rapidly dwindling ‘State Tree’ from extinction, implicit 5,000 palmyrah seeds were planted astir Pallakulam Tank successful Gangaikondan Industries Promotion Centre connected Wednesday.
When the Tamil Nadu Government rolledout successful 2021 ‘Palmyrah Protection Programme’ and ‘Palmyrah Development Programme’ to prevention the histrion from wide felling, Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M. Appavu, promised to sponsor 1 lakh seeds each year. And, helium fulfils his committedness by collecting the palmyrah fruits from Tirunelveli and different districts to beryllium sent to the territory administrations consenting to works the seeds. He sent successful September, 1 lakh palmyrah fruits, each with 2 oregon 3 seeds, to assorted districts done the Department of Horticulture.
As helium sponsored different 5,000 palmyrah seeds to beryllium planted astir Pallakulam Tank successful Gangaikondan SIPCOT Industries Promotion Centre, the workout was conducted connected Wednesday.
After Assistant Collector (Training) Dhawlendu formally planted the seeds, implicit 300 students from Gangaikondan Government Higher Secondary School, Namma Ooru Global School, Gangaikondan, Golden Jubilee Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Sankar Nagar and Sankar Nagar Polytechnic joined him to works the palmyrah seeds astir the Pallakulam Tank arsenic the roots of palmyrah trees would fortify the bund of waterbodies and assistance withstand immoderate magnitude of h2o successful the tank.
The labourers hired nether the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme besides participated successful the event.
District Forest Officer Ilango, Project Director of District Rural Development Agency, Saravanan, SIPCOT Project Officer Marimuthu, Forest Range Officer Jayaprakash and students’ coordinator Felix Francis participated successful the palmyrah effect planting.
