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02/11/22 05:34 AM IST

HARIT Aaykar

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  • The Income Tax Department has launched the HARIT Aaykar (Hariyali Achievement Resolution by Income Tax) initiative.
  • Under this initiative, the Department resolves to increase the green cover by planting trees and creating micro-forests in and around Income Tax Department's buildings and other public areas.
About the Initiative 
  • Launched by: Central Board of Direct taxes
  • Objectives: to increase the green cover by planting trees and creating micro-forests in and around Income Tax Department’s buildings and other public areas.
  • Further, the Department would continue to welcome dignitaries at events and programmes organized by it, with potted plants or a single stalk of a flower.
  • The first of such micro-forests has been inaugurated near the Attari border in Punjab.
Micro -Forests 
  • It is a small, planted forest that maximises tree density and biodiversity.
  • Achieving this goal requires planting a wide variety of plants in a fairly dense manner so that the plot of land has different layers of a forest such as shrubs and canopies and not just trees.
  • Plants typically require anywhere between eight to nine months of care before reaching a point where the micro forest becomes self-sustaining.
Source- PIB 

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