Odisha Government has launched ‘Green Mahanadi Mission’, a plantation drive under which 2 crore saplings will be planted along Mahanadi river and its tributaries.
It will be implemented jointly by States Departments of Forest, Horticulture and Watershed Development.
The main objective of the mission is to stop soil erosion on river banks and recharge the groundwater reserve.
It originates from highlands of Chhattisgarh through a collection of an array of streams and reaches the Bay of Bengal.
Its left bank tributaries are Shivnath, Mand, Ib, Hasdeo and right bank are Ong, parry river, Jonk, Telen.