- On his first visit to Gujarat after scrapping various provisions of Article 370 granting special status to J&K, the Union Home Minister on August 29, 2019 participated in the concluding ceremony of “Mission Million trees” programme organized by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.
- The Mission which started on world environment day i.e June 5, 2019 has been concluded with plantation of 10,87,000 trees in Ahmedabad city.
- Speaking on the occasion the Union Home Minister gave a clarion call to the women to keep away from using plastics bags while purchasing groceries and vegetables. Reminding the citizens of Paris climate accord Mr. shah outlined the danger of ozone layer depletion because of CO2 and CO emission worldover.
- It is to be mentioned here that the Union Home Minister wrote a special letter to the chairmen/secretaries of the resident societies in his parliamentary constituency to plant at least 5 trees in their society which have more than 100 years of age such as Banyan tree, Peepal tree etc. Expressing satisfaction at the response, the Home Minister said that he has received 3216 positive replies in which the societies have also made arrangement for regular watering and maintenance of the trees.
