AGARTALA, Aug 11 (TIWN): Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty while attending the Van Mahotsav programme at Shishu Bihar school Agartala, he asked the students and other to go for plantation during the whole year, regardless any date.

The programme was organized by Sishu Bihar alumni Association, at Shishu Bihar school Agartala.

Van Mahotsav is an annual tree-planting festival in India. This movement was initiated in the year 1950 by India's Union Minister for Agriculture, Kulapati Dr.K M Munshi.

It is expected that every citizen of India has to plant a sapling in the Van Mahotsav week.