Tseminyu, June 7 (MExN): Kithagha Students’ Union on held a plantation drive programme on June 4 involving the citizens of the Kithagha group of villages namely Nsunyu, Chunlikha and Likhwenchu villages under the Chunlikha RD Block, Tseminyu sub-division.
The plantation drive was held as an effort of promoting a green environment as part of its Golden Jubilee year objectives and in commemoration of the World Environment Day wherein thousands of saplings and seeds of various kinds were planted by the volunteers in and around the village including the stretch of NH-2 (59-62kms) that runs through the territory of the villages. The event included the participation of hundreds of volunteers, in ‘Go green’ caps, ranging from students, village functionaries and government officials from within and beyond the village who not only planted saplings but also carried out a cleanliness drive in full-strength.
Through the support ushered by the Forest Department, Nagaland and NEPED, Nagaland that served as enabling agents of the programme and the mass participation of volunteers from the three villages, the programme was a massively successful one.
This was stated in a press release issued by Kithagha Students’ Union, President, Senwalo Kath.
