write a paragraph on van motasav.
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It is expected that every citizen of India has to plant a sapling in the Van Mahotsav week. It helps spread awareness amongst people about the harm caused by the cutting down of trees. People celebrate Van Mahotsava by planting trees or saplings in homes, offices, schools, colleges, etc. Awareness campaigns are held at various levels. Novel promotions like free circulation of trees are also taken up by various organizations and volunteers.
The planting of trees during the festival serves various purposes like providing alternative fuel, increase production of food resources, helps create shelter-belts around fields to increase productivity, provide food for cattle, offers shade and decorative landscapes, helps conserves soil deterioration, etc. The festival educates the awareness of trees among people and portrays the need of planting and tending of trees, as trees are one of the best ways to prevent global warming and reduce pollution. Van Mahotsava is celebrated as a festival of life.
In India it was started as a crusade to save mother earth. The name Van Mahotsava means “the festival of trees”. It began in July 1947 after a flourishing tree planting drive was undertaken in Delhi, in which national leaders like Dr Rajendra Prasad and Jawaharlal Nehru participated. The festival was simultaneously celebrated in a number of states in India. Since then, thousands of saplings of diverse species are planted with energetic participation of the locals and various agencies like the forest department.
The best things in life are free. Oxygen, air and water and all the other necessities for sustaining life on Earth is available to us free of cost. It is plants that provide us with so much we do not even realize. Plants produce oxygen and it is the starting point of all food chains. Plants are the reason life on Earth is possible. Even then plants are subjected to cruelty by humans. Millions of trees are cut each year. But this does not stop plants from being kind to us. When a tree is stoned for its fruit it does get hurt but at the end it does part with its fruit. Nature is our mother, so why are we killing mother. If we do so we are committing a heinous sin by strangling it even further. Today is the day we respect mother nature for all that it has given us. Today is the day when we plant trees and show our indebtedness to nature. Yes! Today is the vana mahotsav day. Van Mahotsav was started in 1950 by K. M. Munshi, the then Union Minister for Agriculture and Food to create enthusiasm among masses for forest conservation and planting trees. Van Mahotsav, a week long festival of tree planting is organised every year in the month of July, across India when millions of trees are planted. As the monsoon progresses across the Gangetic plains, Van Mahotsav is celebrated in some parts in early July, in others, in August, and still further west, even in September. The main purpose for planting the trees during Van Mahotsav was to: Increase awareness about trees and love of trees amongst the people.
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p soil conservation and arrest deterioration of soil fertility.
•Popularize the planting and tending of trees in farms, villages, municipal and public lands for their aesthetic, economic an
d protective needs. Provide fuel and thus release cow dung for use as manure.
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•Increase production of fruits and add to the potential food resources of the country.
Help creation of shelter-belts around agricultural fields to increase their productivity.
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•Provide fodder leaves for cattle to relieve intensity of g
razing over reserved forests.
•Provide shade and ornamental trees for the landscape.
Provide small poles and timber for agricultural implements, house construction and fencing.
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As a part of Van Mahaotsav celebrations throughout the country, afforestation drive was launched after the observations from 1950 in a bid to retain the vanishing forest covers of the country. Cutting down trees on a massive scale has greatly affected the environment around us and it has become imperative to do something about their conservation as well. In the competition of urbanisation and beautification of cities, trees were considered the greatest stumbling block.