India, June 10 -- Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Monday kicked off the second phase of Delhi's plantation campaign, Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam 2.0 (A tree for your mother), by planting a Sindoor tree (bixa orellana) sapling at the Government Girls Senior Secondary School in Shalimar Bagh, alongside education minister Ashish Sood.

"This is more than an environmental campaign - it's an emotional, cultural and social commitment to our mothers, our motherland, and Mother Nature," Gupta said.

The launch comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the nationwide Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam initiative on World Environment Day by planting a banyan sapling in Delhi's Mahavir Vanasthali Park. The campaign encourages people to plant trees in hon...