Hyderabad: Spiritual guru Jaggi Vasudev launches Green India Challenge 5.0 | Hyderabad News

HYDERABAD: Spiritual guru Jaggi Vasudev aka Sadhguru has said that the ‘Telangana ku Harita Haram’ and Green India Challenge stood a role model in the country and asserted all other states should accept the challenge.
Sadhguru said that he was on a world tour and he was overwhelmed by seeing lush green cover while entering the Telangana state.
Speaking after launching Green India Challenge (GIC) 5.0 on the outskirts of Hyderabad along with GIC founder and MP Joginapally Santosh Kumar, the spiritual guru said indiscriminate use of chemicals would destroy the earth life and it would be a big threat to the future generations. Vasudev said that there is no alternative to Earth and Soil. He strongly hoped for the conservation of earth and sol and gift them to the future generations.
As part of the Save Soil movement, Vasudev started his journey to Bengaluru from Hyderabad on Thursday. On his way, the spiritual guru planted saplings at Golluru forest areas at Shamshabad and declared the launching of the Green India Challenge- 5.0.
Sadhguru praised Santosh Kumar for taking up a big task of the plantation programme and played a role model for youth. He asserted the need to educate people about the importance of conservation of nature and environment. The goal of GIC and Save oil are the same i.e protection of the earth, he added.
Santosh said that with the inspiration of Telangana ku haritha haram, the brainchild of CM K Chandrasekhar Rao, he launched Green India challenge four years ago to spread the awareness on greenery across the country. He expressed gratitude to all for making a big success of every programme taken up under GIC. He felt happy on receiving blessings from Sadhguru and he would launch some more innovative programmes in the future.
On the lines of Yadadri model plantation, Green India challenge with the support of Telangana State Forest department, has taken up the task of improving green cover by grooming big plants in Golluru where the forest cover has depleted. In the first phase, fencing of 900 acres of forest area was already completed. To revive the forest cover, 10,000 saplings have been planted at one go under Green India Challenge 5.0.
Sadguru, his supporters, Isha foundation members, school students and locals also participated in a big number in the plantation programme.