Hyderabad: All city roads converged to Pragati Resorts on Monday with hundreds of school children, government officials, 
members of volunteer organizations and trade bodies flocking the venue for participating in Pragati’s Haritha Haaram Progarmme. Pragati Group has taken up the programme to plant 1, 17,000 saplings at Pragati Biodiversity Knowledge Park spread over Proddutur and 12 other villages in line with the state government’s ‘Telanganaku Haritha Haaram’ to create green cover in Telangana state. Pragati’s plantation drive has turned into a public movement with the massive participation of the public from various walks of life and sections of the community.
Mr. Lyngdoh the chief guest for the programme applauding the efforts of Pragati led by Dr GBK Rao in the area of environment protection said, “Dr GBK Rao’s unflinching, determined efforts to create one it’s kind Pragati Resort needs to be appreciated. Pragati has emerged as a role model institution and an inspiration to be emulated by many across the country. Developing a green canopy is the need of the hour to save the planet. And Pragati’s tree plantation drive to plant more than a lac trees in line with the state government’s ideal Haritha Haaram programme is commendable.” As a part of the programme the state government has undertaken a mass plantation programme of Planting 25 lakh saplings on Monday..
Speaking on the occasion Dr. GBK lauded the government’s initiative to take up the Haritha Haaram Programme to create green cover across the state in phased manner. He said, “Pragati has been playing a key role in this Programme. And as a part of this initiative today Pragati is planting 1,17,000 saplings. Plants have been an integral part of the Indian Vedic culture and play a vital role for healthy living. I appeal to all of you to go in for mass plantation in your respective areas and be an inspiration to the future generations. As this generation is responsible for polluting the mother earth and creating a situation where we are living on the edge confronted with the manifestations of environmental destruction in the forms of Ozone layer depletion and global warming. Urgent, important words are gone; we need to go on a plantation drive on a war footing to save the planet from major catastrophes.”
Earlier the programme was kicked off by recitation of Ganesh Stuti to Lord Ganesha by Dr. G.B.K. Rao, CMD Pragati Group in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Lyngdoh, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, Mr. S. Suresh Rao Joint Commissioner, GHMC, Mr. G. Ajay Chandra, Joint Managing Director Pragati Group and other dignitaries. Inaugurating the mega tree plantation programme at Pragati Resort’s main entrance in the presence of hundreds of school children from HPS, Aurobindo, Swami Narayan Gurukul, St. Joseph’s, other leading schools, GHMC officials, members of TREDA, CII, WWF, Brahmakumaris, many city laughing clubs and Pragati staff.
Pragati, as a Green Visionary, has been in the forefront of creating awareness and propagation of plantation for more than last two decades in and around Hyderabad and has emerged as a global role model for conservation of Biodiversity.