Gopal Rai said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was supposed to attend the event at the Asola Wildlife Sanctuary.
The panel will have members from PWD, DDA, Forest Dept, municipal corporations, School of Planning and Architecture, Central Public Works Dept, Delhi Urban Arts Commission and the IARI-PUSA.
The permission has been issued by the Dy Conservator of Forest (North) under Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994.
In a bid to make India clean and green, Filmmaker Rohit Shetty took part in a tree plantation drive in Mumbai on July 09.
Making the announcement, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said the government will plant around 33 lakh saplings this year, including both big and small trees, to curb the problem of pollution.
People who take the initiative to plant saplings will be given the Pranvayu Award for their participation, the official said.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched Plantation Drive 2020 from his residence in New Delhi.
This unique 'punishment', brought into practice eight years back in Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, has started showing results as more than 550 trees have now covered a large portion of the land near the building of Department of Architecture.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who was in Allahabad to distribute free saplings on the bank of the Ganga-Yamuna confluence, said the state government set four records on Friday.
Tripura Forest and Tribal Welfare Minister Mevar Kumar Jamatia told reporters here that the state government has decided to plant at least 10 lakh trees across the state this year.
Leading from the front, Prime Minister Imran Khan planted a sapling in the country's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
The Madhya Pradesh government today carried out a drive to plant six crore saplings in 12-hours along the banks of river Narmada.
Berhampur(Odisha): Steps are being taken to undertake massive plantation in areas affected by Cyclone Phailin in Odisha's Ganjam district under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The programme would be carried out through different
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