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Indian Army, in collaboration with
other agencies, attempted to set a new Guinness record of planting the
maximum number of trees by 100 men within an hour on the banks of
Saralbhanga River near Chirang reserve forest on April, 2012. The Army’s
Dogra Regiment at Kokrajhar, the State Forest Department and 135
Ecological Territorial Army Battalion made this attempt at Khalasi, near
Jharbari. With the motto of ‘Plant a tree, Save a Lift’, 100 volunteers
including Army men and Haltugaon Division Forest Department officials
planted 40,885 saplings in one hour.
The current record
is for planting 26,422 trees I one hour in Gransha Park, Northern
Ireland.
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