{"id":25302,"date":"2026-07-16T18:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=25302"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:46:13","slug":"clean-jammu-green-jammu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/clean-jammu-green-jammu\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Clean Jammu, Green Jammu&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>JMC conducts mega plantation drive at Shanti Park<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JAMMU, JULY 16: Furthering its &#8216;Clean Jammu, Green Jammu&#8217; initiative, the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) Thursday organised a mega plantation drive at Shanti Park, Ward No 61 (Patta Paloura), under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP). The drive was inaugurated by Commissioner, Jammu Municipal Corporation, Dr Devansh Yadav.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organised in collaboration with the Urban Forestry Division, Jammu, the drive, as per an official statement, is part of a city-wide green campaign spearheaded by Dr Devansh Yadav, with the goal of planting over 50,000 saplings across Jammu. The initiative aims to strengthen the city&#8217;s green cover, improve air quality, enhance biodiversity and foster a more sustainable urban environment through public participation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the drive, around 2,100 saplings were planted at Shanti Park, adding a new green space to the city. The plantation forms part of JMC&#8217;s efforts to create environmentally resilient public spaces while addressing urban pollution and climate change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr Devansh Yadav highlighted the role of urban forestry in improving environmental health and quality of life. He appealed to residents, educational institutions, social organisations and youth groups to participate in the campaign and take responsibility for protecting the planted saplings to ensure their survival.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among those present were Joint Commissioner (Health &amp; Sanitation) Abdul Sattar; Deputy Commissioner (North), JMC, Sanjay Badyal; Divisional Forest Officer, Jammu, Ashwani Sharma; Assistant Floriculture Officer Dr Rabia Khan; and Veterinary Assistant Surgeon Dr Priyanka Malhotra. Also present was former Councillor Mohinder Kumar along with officials of the Jammu Municipal Corporation and the Urban Forestry Division, Jammu, senior citizens, volunteers and local residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JMC conducts mega plantation drive at Shanti Park JAMMU, JULY 16: Furthering its &#8216;Clean Jammu, Green Jammu&#8217; initiative, the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) Thursday organised a mega plantation drive at Shanti Park, Ward No 61 (Patta Paloura), under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP). The drive was inaugurated by Commissioner, Jammu Municipal Corporation, Dr Devansh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25304,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25302\/revisions\/25304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}