'Protect trees for ecological balance& environmental security'

Puducherry: Welfare and Tourism Minister P Rajavelu today stressed the need to protect trees so that there could be ecological balance and environmental security.

Launching a drive to plant more saplings on the occasion of celebration of 53rd De Jure Transfer day of Puducherry at Government High School Boys' hostel at nearby Bahoor village, he said planting of saplings alone was not enough.There should be proper protection and care to ensure that the saplings grow into trees for the protection of the environment.

He said youth should imbibe the spirit of environmental protection and inculcate the attitude to grow more trees.