28,000 Saplings Planted In Maharashtra's Latur District
NDTV
"Citizens have realized that planting the saplings is the need of the hour. Thousands of people joined the initiative today," said Latur collector Prithviraj BP.
As many as 28,000 saplings were planted on Sunday on the banks of the Manjara river in Maharashtra's Latur district with students and others from 14 villages forming a human chain extending up to 10 km during the special drive.
The participants included a large number of college students, teachers, villagers, and state government officials.
The Manjara river, a tributary of the Godavari river, originates in the Beed district neighbouring Latur in the Marathwada region. The river flows from the northern boundaries of the Osmanabad district and cutting across the Latur district goes to the Bidar district in Karnataka and finally Telangana.
