{"id":63485,"date":"2025-01-24T18:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T13:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=63485"},"modified":"2025-01-24T18:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T13:11:37","slug":"cda-mulls-using-helicopters-drone-for-aerial-seeding-in-islamabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/islamabad\/cda-mulls-using-helicopters-drone-for-aerial-seeding-in-islamabad\/","title":{"rendered":"CDA mulls using helicopters, drone for aerial seeding in Islamabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has mulled using helicopters and drones for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/cda-exposed-dozens-of-fraudulent-land-transfers-uncovered-in-islamabad\/\">aerial seeding<\/a> in Islamabad for the tree plantation campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman CDA Muhammad Ali Randhawa held a meeting with environmental expert Rizwan Mehboob in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>The civic body has planned an extensive tree plantation campaign on the Margalla Hills and other vacant lands this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the press release, &#8220;Chairman CDA stated that a plan should be devised to use helicopters and drones for aerial seeding during the tree plantation campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CDA chairman emphasised involving students from educational institutions and the corporate sector to maximise the campaigns\u2019 impact,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>The CDA chairman stressed the importance of formulating a strategy to control forest fires in the National Hill Park before the fire season begins.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, environmentalist Rizwan Mehboob offered his voluntary support to assist CDA in managing and preventing forest fires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has mulled using helicopters and drones for aerial seeding in Islamabad for the tree plantation campaign. Chairman CDA Muhammad Ali Randhawa held a meeting with environmental expert Rizwan Mehboob in this regard. The civic body has planned an extensive tree plantation campaign on the Margalla Hills and other vacant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":63492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14809],"tags":[3668,26025],"class_list":["post-63485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","tag-capital-development-authority","tag-cda-aerial-seeding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63493,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63485\/revisions\/63493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}