A local environment group aims is to turn Heirok into a green village and led the plantation of fruit-bearing trees and medicinal plant saplings.

Apart from the normal scheme both the horticulture and agriculture departments have also increased the distribution of seeds of rice and vegetables to the farmers.

Range forest officer Kakching Naorem Munal Meitei said that although the observation was started in 1965 worldwide, the target had not been achieved so far.

The new fish species has been named after a retired professor of Manipur University, Vishwanath Waikhom to honour the contributions made by him in the field of fish taxonomy.

Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar inaugurated an urban forest at the office of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg in New Delhi on Thursday.