National Rural Road Development Committee

 


    available by the Forest Department from their nurseries free of cost. Preferably, 3 year old plants will be planted.
  • As far as possible fruit bearing / income yielding varieties of trees will be chosen.
  • The work of looking after the trees ensuring their survival by watering, protection, thinning etc. will be entrusted to en-employed young people in the village by the Village Panchayat. For this purpose the road stretches will be divided in manageable lengths for one person. The trees which are cut in the thinning operation will be given free to that person.
  • The necessary tools and one cycle rickshaw with a barel of say 200 litre capacity of water will be supplied to the person to whom the work of maintenance of trees is allotted.
  • The person who is entrusted with the work will be paid some fixed allowance per month from the grants made available by the Forest department.
  • The income from the trees will be shared in some agreed proportion between the person maintaining the trees and the Panchayat Samiti / Zilla Parishad.