KARACHI: The administration of District Municipal Corporation-East will distribute around 10,000 saplings to the people visiting graveyards on the occasion of Shab-i-Barat on Tuesday (today) so that they could plant them and play their role in mitigating the effects of climate change, it emerged on Monday.

DMC-East Administrator Syed Shakeel Ahmed told Dawn that there were total 29 graveyards in the district — 12 in Gulshan-i-Iqbal Zone and 17 in Jamshed Zone — and tens of thousands of people would visit the cemeteries on Shab-i-Barat.

He said that besides making cleanliness and lighting arrangements this year, he had planned to distribute one sapling to each family so that they could plant it and take responsibility of it in the future. He said that camps would be set up outside the graveyards for this purpose.

“We will distribute around 10,000 saplings and I am sure people will take responsibility of this initiative,” he hoped. r

Published in Dawn, March 7th, 2023

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