Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam
Also called: #Plant4Mother · Topic: Biodiversity and its Conservation · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam ("a tree in the name of mother") is a tree-planting campaign. The Prime Minister launched it as a global campaign with the hashtag #Plant4Mother. Each person is asked to plant a tree in their mother's name, which makes planting a personal act of respect. Many small acts add up to a mass plantation drive. This adds green cover, which gives homes to birds and insects, cools the air and stores carbon. What really matters is how many saplings stay alive over the years, not how many are planted on the first day.
Example
At Bharat Vann in Mysuru, Karnataka, over 2 lakh native trees are being planted on 17.63 acres under this campaign. They use the Miyawaki technique, which means planting native saplings very close together so that a thick, small forest grows quickly. Cow dung, compost and Jeevamrut (a natural farm mix) are added to the soil to make it richer.
Don't confuse with
- Nagar Van Yojana: a government scheme to create urban forests on chosen city land. Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam is a people's campaign that asks each person to plant a tree.
- Miyawaki technique: this is a planting method, named after the Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki. It is not a campaign or a scheme. The campaign can use this method, as it does at Bharat Vann.