Shri Nitin Gadkariji has all of these very desirable qualities
– desirable for a Minister
Proof
of Ambition :
After being appointed as Transport Minister , he said :
I got an opportunity to work on
road transport...this time, I
have decided to plant 125 crore trees, as much as the country's
population, along the roads in the next five years,”
said Nitin Gadkari.
"I am thinking to work on
creating roadside amenities in a big way and 2,000 such amenities would be set
up.
Work has started on the
Mumbai-Delhi Expressway and 12 other expressway projects will be completed in
next three months," he said.
[ source : https://www.news18.com/news/auto/nitin-gadakri-plans-to-plant-125-crore-trees-build-40-km-road-everyday-2169883.html ]
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That ambition translates into planting 25 crore trees on roadsides, EACH
YEAR !
That means, 25 crores from June 2019 till May 2020
Proof
of Achievement ?
None to my knowledge !
All I get to see on TV is, migrant workers walking
hundreds of kilometers on roads with hardly a tree to provide cool shade –
walking under open Sun, in temperatures of 42* C – sometimes bare feet !
Sometimes, with a 5 year old child in tow !
Of course, no one could blame Shri Gadkariji for NOT
having envisaged CORONA crisis in June 2019 when he announced his AMBITION
Dear Shri
Gadkariji,
It is never too late to start – especially on a journey
to save the environment, by planting trees
Now, it does not help to ( endlessly ) keep analyzing :
“ What went wrong ? Why did we fail to achieve our
target of planting 25 cr ( 2500 lakh ) trees in 365 days ? “
It is better to ask :
Ø What can I do to plant 6.8 lakh trees PER DAY (
2500 lakh in 365 days ) ?
Ø How
did Ethiopians succeed in planting 350 million trees in 12 Hours ?
[ source : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/ethiopians-plant-350-million-trees-in-12-hours-to-fight-drought/articleshow/70459596.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst / 31
July 2019 ]
Answer
:
As repeatedly urged by our PM Shri Modiji : Take help of Technology
Here is that technology :
Extract :
But to restore forests that have already been lost, the drones can work more
quickly and cheaply than humans planting with shovels.
tech can currently plant 10,000 to 20,000 seed pods a day; as the
technology advances, a pair of pilots will be able to plant 100,000 trees in a
day (by hand, someone might typically be able to plant around 1,500 trees in a
day, Ahlstrom says.)
The company aims to bring the cost down to 50 cents per tree, or around a
fourth of the cost of some other tree restoration efforts.
165 trees were planted in three minutes with the use of a
single drone.
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My take :
Ø Forget about what
Ahlstrom says ( 1500 trees / person / day – manually )
Ø Let us assume only
10 trees / day / MGNREGA worker – manually )
Ø Let us assume that
we deploy just 1 cr ( out of 11 cr ) MIGRANT workers for such tree-planting
along the roads
Ø That means 10 cr
trees / day ( remember, Ethiopia’s 35 cr / day ? )
Ø So, Shri Gadkariji’s
target of 125 cr trees in 5 years, can be achieved in just 12.5 days !
Ø Each MGNREGA
worker gets paid Rs 200 / day
Ø Hence planting one
sapling will cost , Rs 20 / -
Ø So, 125 cr sapling planting will
transfer ( DBT ) , Rs 2,500 cr to migrant workers !
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Related
Reading:
Ø These
Tree-Planting Drones Are About To Start An Entire Forest From The Sky
Ø
https://tanksgoodnews.com/2019/12/09/badass-drone-fires-seed-bullets-into-the-ground-to-plant-trees/
with regards,
Hemen Parekh
hcp@RecruitGuru.com /
16 May 2020
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