Chandigarh, Aug. 8 -- Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Friday called upon citizens to actively participate in environmental conservation, saying protecting nature should become a people's movement rooted in India's cultural values. Saini cautioned that planting a sapling merely for ceremonial purposes- or a photograph- cannot be considered success, saying that real success lies in how many of the saplings planted become full grown trees three years after the plantation.

Addressing the inaugural session of the second phase of the state-level van mahotsav organised at Manesar in Gurugram on Friday, CM directed the forest department, panchayati raj institutions and urban local bodies to focus not only on plantation targets but al...