New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah participated in a mega tree plantation drive of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) in Gurgaon on Sunday.
Shah visited the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers' training academy in Kadarpur village.
The chiefs and some personnel of the five CAPFs and other central forces were present during the event.
All the CAPFs have undertaken a drive in their respective organisations to achieve the collective target of planting more than 1.35 crore saplings by this month.
A senior CAPF officer said that these forces have planted about 20 lakh saplings till now and out of this, around 10 lakh have been done by the CRPF.
"It is our resolve to plant 22 lakh saplings at all our locations in the country by July end. This is part of our commitment to enhance the country's green canopy," CRPF spokesperson Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Moses Dhinakaran said.
A BSF officer said the force will plant about 2.5 lakh saplings as part of the campaign.
The five CAPFs are the CRPF, BSF, ITBP, CISF and SSB, and two other central forces under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) are the NSG and the NDRF.
These forces, with a combined strength of about 10 lakh personnel, render a variety of security duties, law and order management, border guarding, counter-insurgency and counter-terrorist operations and disaster rescue and relief under the command of the MHA.
PTI
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