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The Odisha government on Wednesday planted more than 1 crore saplings as a mark of the State's gratitude towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who turned 75 on September 17.

This was announced by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi through a social media post. He said that the target of planting 75 lakh saplings today was achieved at 1.33 PM.

The CM in a post on X said, "As of 2:16 PM today, our collective efforts have successfully resulted in the plantation of 1,00,21,236 saplings. Sincere gratitude and congratulations to all involved."

By 2.16 PM - a total of 1,00,21,236 saplings were planted at 41,080 sites across 30 distric...