Trees help in reducing the pollution of our environment. Lakhs of trees are planted by people in the month of July every year. The occasion is called

(a) forest Conservation Day

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(b) plantation month

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(d) wildlife week

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Solution

The correct option is C
(c) Van Mahotsav

(c) Van Mahotsav

Van Mahotsav week is celebrated in the first week of July and plantation drives are carried out across the country.

India has taken a target of creating additional 2 billion carbon sequestration by 2030.

On Van Mahotsav, people plant saplings and encourage more people and various plantation drives are also carried out.

A botanist called MS Randhawa had organized the first Indian national tree plantation week In 1947. In the same year, Khurshid Ahmad Khan, the then Commissioner of Delhi inaugurated the first event by planting Bauhinia saplings.

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