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AGARTALA, August 19 (TIWN): Concerned with global warming and climate change, the BSF had launched a "My Earth, My Duty" plantation programme. BSFs 180,000 sapling green mission along Indias frontiersThe paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) aims to enter the Limca Book of Records by planting 180,000 trees along Indias frontiers Tuesday, an official said.Over 10,500 BSF troopers would plant 180,000 trees in 30 minutes (10 a.m. to 10.30 am) August 19 all along India’s borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh, according to BSF deputy inspector general Bhaskar Rawat.
BSF troopers are deployed along the 4,096 km India-Bangladesh and 3,323 km India-Pakistan frontiers.
Saplings of various trees would be exchanged between the border guards of Bangladesh and Pakistan.
A BGB official told TWIN at the India-Bangladesh check post at Akhaurah, near Agartala: "Such a joint initiative would bring the border guards of the two neighbours closer and would help in improving working relations between them."
The BSF official said that after creating the record on August 19, the green mission would continue till August 21 to cross 200,000.
"BSF has pledged to nullify the effect of the environmental hazards that nature is facing due to the felling of trees for the past many years," Rawat concluded
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