PTI GOVT TO USE GPS TO MONITOR TREES PLANTED UNDER 10 BILLION TREE TSUNAMI

As the government presses ahead with its ambitious plan of planting over 10 billion trees across the country, a junior climate change minister on Monday suggested that global position systems (GPS) and other satellite tools may be used to effectively monitor and evaluate the 10 Billion Tree Tsunami (10BTT) plantation programme. All provincial forest departments and the relevant authorities have already agreed, with a clear agenda on implementing the 10BTT program, Said Zartaj Gul W a z i r . S h e s a i d t h e parliamentarians have a key role to globbizavenueOfficial globbizavenue.com 44 PTI GOVT TO USE GPS TO MONITOR TREES PLANTED UNDER 10 BILLION TREE TSUNAMI play in the success of initiatives such as 10BTT and the ban on the use of plastic bags. “Unless parliamentarians take the lead in monitoring their constituencies, the issues of poor implementation and price hike of household items cannot be controlled,” Wazir said. The minister added that she was pe rsona lly monitoring he r constituency and “keeping myself aware of the situation about prices of goods and cost of plantations and remain in close coordination with the district management to provide relief to the masses.” In a query she said the ban on plastic bags cannot succeed without public education and awareness about the health hazards of plastic bags. “The chief ministers of the four provinces have vowed to impose the ban on plastic bags in their provinces with the statutory regulatory order (SRO) imposed by the ministry is e a si l y r e p l i c a b l e i n t h e provinces,” The public in the federal capital is fully motivated to quit the use of plastic bags but the trans-boundary inflow of plastic bags from a d j o i n i n g p r o v i n c e s w a s hampering efforts to ensure complete compliance on the ban.