'Tree Man' keen to spread green cover

Sonepat: The Global Haryana Chamber of Commerce has volunteered to raise nurseries in different districts of Haryana in cooperation with ‘Tree Man’ Devender Sura. The chamber was impressed by Sura, who raised around 40,000 saplings in a nursery. He serves in the Chandigarh Police and is popularly known as Tree Man for conducting free plantation drives. “We will make this movement popular in other countries as well. There are around 18,000 members of the organisation in India and other countries, including USA, UK, Australia and Canada, also,” said GHCC chairman, Balinder Singh, an NRI residing in New Jersy, USA. During his recent visit to Sonepat and the nursery, he also participated in the tree plantation drive in Sector 23.

50 yrs of oral surgeons’ assn

Rohtak: The department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Rohtak Post Graduate Institute of Dental Science (PGIDS) organised an awareness drive to mark the completion of 50 years of the Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons of India, here recently. A walkathon, an exhibition of posters, lectures and a street play were organised. Dr Virendra Singh, senior professor and head of the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery, explained various procedures performed at the department. Vice-Chancellor, University of Health Sciences, Prof OP Kalra and PGIDS Principal Dr Sanjay Tewari congratulated the faculty members, students and other staffers of the department.

Finding solution to dirty Ghaggar water

Kaithal: ADC Kaithal RK Singh, appointed as nodal officer by Deputy Commissioner Dr Priyanka to check the flow of dirty water from villages in Ghaggar River, has been asked to find a permanent solution to this problem and implement the directives of the National Green Tribunal (NGT). The ADC held a meeting with the officials of the Panchayati Raj Department, Irrigation Department and sarpanches of villages concerned here recently to find a solution to check the flow of waste water in Ghaggar. He directed SDMs of Kaithal and Guhla to monitor such measures constantly. The NGT, taking a suo-moto cognizance of this problem, had issued necessary directions in this matter, Singh said. He called for exploring the possibilities of Seechewal model besides three or five pond system to solve this problem as Seechewal model was being followed in Punjab to make dirty water clean and he sought cooperation of sarpanches with the administration in this matter. RK Goel, XEN Panchayati Raj, provided information about three and five ponds system and about Seechewal model, through which waste water was made fit for irrigation in Punjab.

Contributed by BS Malik, Sunit Dhawan and Satish Seth