BIOGRAPHY OF HARITHAHARAM
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Haritha Haram
Type of project Green cover
Location Telangana, India
Founder Government of Telangana
Chief Minister Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao KCR..
Established 3 July 2015
Budget ₹5500 crores
Status Active
History
The program was launched by Telangana Chief Minister Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao on 3 July 2015. It is one of the Telangana Flagship programmes to rejuvenate degraded forests, protecting these forests from threats such as smuggling, encroachment, fire and grazing. It adopted intensive soil and moisture conservation measures based on a watershed approach.[2]
In the areas outside the existing forest, massive planting activities were to be planting have be taken up in areas such as; road-side avenues, river and canal banks, barren hills, tank bunds and foreshore areas, institutional premises, religious places, housing colonies, community lands, municipalities and industrial parks. National Forest Policy of India envisages a minimum of 33% of the total geographical area under forest cover to maintain environmental stability and ecological balance, which is vital for the sustenance of all life-forms, be it human, animal or plant.[3]
Telangana Ku Haritha Haram or Haritha Haram is a large-scale tree-planting program implemented by the Government of Telangana to increase the amount of tree cover in the state from 24% to 33%.