Srinagar, March 15 -- With an aim to preserve the heritage value of Chinars, the Forest Department today launched a Chinar plantation drive within the Civil Secretariat premises, Jammu. Minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment Javed Ahmad Rana, Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo, Commissioner Secretary, Sheetal Nanda and Principal Chief Conservator of Forests & HoFF, Suresh Kumar Gupta, planted chinar saplings on the occasion. Pertinently, the Chinar Day is being celebrated every year on 15th of March throughout the UT of Jammu and Kashmir with plantation drives held at specific locations till the season of plantation. Javed Rana, while speaking on the occasion, highlighted the importance of Chinar as a heritage tree and termed it as the ind...