Minister of State for Housing & Urban Affairs Shri Hardeep S Puri on October 11, 2019 launched the mobile app, “mHariyali,” in New Delhi.
The app is aimed to encourage Public engagement in planting trees and other such Green drives.
People can now upload information/photos of any plantation done by them, which is linked to app and will be displayed on website www.epgc.gov.in.
The App provides for automatic geo-tagging of plants. This app will also enable nodal officers to periodically monitor the plantation. The App is user friendly and works on any android mobile phone.
A mass plantation drive “Haryali Mahotsav” was launched in San Martin Park, Chanakyapuri, Delhi on 28.7.2019 by Secretary HUA in which approx 500 plants were planted and about 150 people, including students, participated. To date, 21,756 plants, including fruit plants have planted in these 103 colonies and more than 3800 people have participated.
25 Rain Water Harvesting structures were constructed and 307 systems were augmented. For generating awareness about source segregation of waste and home composting solutions, 57,782 SMSs were sent to allottees of Government colonies, and 76 Exhibitions were held to sensitize the public.
