Save Trees on Van Mahotsav

 

Van Mahotsav Day Speech

The best things in life are free. Oxygen, air and water and all the other necessities for sustaining life on Earth is available to us free of cost. It is plants that provide us with so much we do not even realize. Plants produce oxygen and it is the starting point of all food chains. Plants are the reason life on Earth is possible. Even then plants are subjected to cruelty by humans. Millions of trees are cut each year. But this does not stop plants from being kind to us. When a tree is stoned for its fruit it does get hurt but at the end it does part with its fruit. Nature is our mother, so why are we killing mother. If we do so we are committing a heinous sin by strangling it even further.

Today is the day we respect mother nature for all that it has given us. Today is the day when we plant trees and show our indebtedness to nature. Yes! Today is the van Mahotsav day. Van Mahotsav was started in 1950 by K. M. Munshi, the then Union Minister for Agriculture and Food to create enthusiasm among masses for forest conservation and planting trees. Van Mahotsav, a week long festival of tree planting is organized every year in the month of July, across India when millions of trees are planted. The main purpose for planting the trees during Van Mahotsav was to:

·      Increase awareness about trees and love of trees amongst the people.

·        Help soil conservation and arrest deterioration of soil fertility.

·        Popularize the planting and tending of trees in farms, villages, municipal and public lands for their aesthetic, economic and protective needs.

 

As a part of Van Mahotsav celebrations throughout the country, afforestation drive was launched after the observations from 1950 in a bid to retain the vanishing forest covers of the country. Cutting down trees on a massive scale has greatly affected the environment around us and it has become imperative to do something about their conservation as well. In the competition of urbanization and beautification of cities, trees were considered the greatest stumbling block.

Trees are our best friends,  they give us our all,

our greed has crossed all limits, it has caused their fall,

its time to make amends, save trees is the hours call,

its necessary for survival of all.