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Uttar Pradesh Launches 'Ek Ped Guru Ke Naam' Tree Drive Statewide on Teachers' Day

State officials cast the symbolic push as a follow-up to July’s record monsoon planting, linking the campaign to tributes through theme-based forests.

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Overview

  • All forest divisions have completed preparations for the September 5 plantation drive, according to Mission Director Deepak Kumar.
  • At Kukrail in Lucknow, retired and serving Indian Forest Service officers will plant saplings at Smriti Vatika, with saplings presented as mementos.
  • A parallel plantation event is scheduled on the IIT-BHU campus in Varanasi under the same theme.
  • Officials say about 37.21 crore saplings were planted statewide on July 9 under Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam 2.0, with the Chief Minister launching the drive in Ayodhya and joining events in Azamgarh and Gorakhpur.
  • The Teachers’ Day activity is described as a smaller, symbolic follow-up within the state’s theme-based effort that includes newly created special forests such as Eklavya Van and Vishisht Van.