Question: Recently, which state government announced to launch ‘My Plant’ mobile app on July 1, 2017 to register data about plantation?
(a) Andhra Pradesh
(b) Maharashtra
(c) Kerala
(d) Goa
Ans: (b)
Related facts:-
- On June 23, 2017, Maharashtra’s Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar announced the launch of ‘My Plant’ mobile application.
- This app will help people and organisations to feed the data about the saplings they have planted with the Forest Department, which would help it in creating a database of trees.
- The Forest Department had set a target to plant four crore saplings through public participation in the state between July 1 to 7, in the state.
- The target of Maharashtra government is to plant 13 crore trees by 2018.
Related Links:-
http://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/maharashtra-government-to-launch-my-plant-mobile-app-on-tree-plantation/story-p31luQSGQedBdY4Pwgz9AI.html
http://punemirror.indiatimes.com/pune/others/state-govt-to-roll-out-mobile-app-on-plantation-of-trees/articleshow/59289712.cms