Pact inked to develop herbal forest in Morni

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 18

The Forest Department today signed an MoU with Patanjali Anusandhan Sansthan Divya Yog Mandir Trust, Haridwar, for developing a herbal forest in Morni, Panchkula district.

While Haryana Additional Chief Secretary, Forests, RR Jowel signed the pact on behalf of the Forest Department, Acharya Balkrishan signed on behalf of the Patanjali Anusandhan Sansthan Divya Yog Mandir Trust, Haridwar, in the presence of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Health and Ayush Minister Anil Vij, Forests Minister Rao Narbir Singh and Finance Minister Capt Abhimanyu.

The Chief Minister said the world herbal forest would be developed over an area of 53,000 acres with the technical and knowledge support of the Patanjali Anusandhan Sansthan. This would not only help in the promotion of herbal and medicinal plants, but would also assist to promote forest tourism in the state. The herbal forest would bring Haryana on the world map where botanists and researchers from around the globe would come, he added.