Morang, Dec. 10 -- The Provincial 1 government has spent a huge amount of its annual budget on tree plantation campaigns over the years. The government runs these campaigns with the objective to increase forest cover in the province. However, the campaigns have failed to bear fruit as the planted saplings die soon after for lack of care.

For this fiscal year too, the Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment of Province 1 has launched several province forest development and greenery programmes.

To bring the programmes into effect, the provincial government has allocated around Rs 86 million. The government also aims to produce and purchase 4,566,000 saplings of various tree species, such as Rudraksha, Tejpata (Cinnamomum tam...