Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah is set to kick off a mass tree plantation campaign in Ahmedabad on Sunday. The event will coincide with the inauguration and foundation stone laying of public infrastructure projects totaling around Rs 405 crore. Shah’s day will commence at 8.30 a.m. at the Science Dome in Science City, where he will launch the city-wide plantation campaign under the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s Mission ‘Five Million Trees’ initiative.
The public program will feature the inauguration and foundation stone laying of various development projects undertaken jointly by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA), and the Roads and Buildings Department. These projects, collectively valued at approximately Rs 405 crore, aim to enhance civic infrastructure throughout the city.
Following the inaugural ceremony, Shah will engage in a series of tree-plantation activities at different locations in Ahmedabad as part of the mass-plantation campaign. Starting at 9.30 a.m., he will participate in a plantation drive in Thaltej Ward of the Ghatlodia Assembly constituency at the AMC plot near the Gota-Godhavi Canal in Bhadaj.
The second plantation program is scheduled for 9.55 a.m. in Sarkhej Ward of the Vejalpur Assembly constituency at an AMC plot near Applewood on S.P. Ring Road in Bopal. Shah will wrap up the morning’s plantation events at 10.25 a.m. by attending a tree plantation program in Stadium Ward of the Naranpura Assembly constituency, to be held at the NDDB plot near Gandhi Ashram.
These plantation initiatives are part of AMC’s Mission Five Million Trees campaign, which aims to increase the city’s green cover through extensive community involvement. Additionally, the civic body, along with AUDA and the Roads and Buildings Department, will use this opportunity to launch multiple public infrastructure projects across Ahmedabad. Shah, the representative of the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency, is expected to participate in all four scheduled events during his visit to Gujarat on July 12.
