Chandigarh, June 6 -- Justice Deepak Sibal of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, who is also the executive chairman of the Haryana State Legal Services Authority (HALSA), on Friday launched a statewide plantation drive on the occasion of World Environment Day.

In a statement, the HALSA said that the campaign, being undertaken in collaboration with the state forest department, will continue during the monsoon season to achieve the target of planting about 10 lakh trees across the state.

While launching the initiative, justice Sibal interacted with all the district and sessions judges-cum-chairpersons; district legal services authorities and chief judicial magistrates-cum-secretaries of the district legal services authorities across Harya...