Motihari: East Champaran District Administration has launched an ecological movement – our guardian tree seave – with the support of Jeevika Didi and villagers, most women, with views to protect trees believed between 70 to 400 years.
DM Shirshat Kapil Ashok said that at least 1,450 trees have been identified by administration and are recrocated as ‘guardian trees’.
This movement helps display social, historical, local majesty and the associations of these trees with the community through a signboard.
These details are also uploaded on applications specifically designed ‘paraavaran prahan’.
All trees have now been given geo-tags through the application.
It also provides a complete description of trees including age, thickness, botanical and local names.
DM further said that the banyan tree believed to be 400-year-old has been identified in the village of Sonbarsa under the Harsidhi Block with the support of villagers who were abandoned in Lalai over the past few decades.
He along with a large number of village men and women decorate him with flowers and balloons on the night of Rakshabandhan.
Jeevika didi tie Rakhi to the ‘guardian tree’ and vowed to protect him.
One of the oldest trees in Mirpur Pokhar in the district has been around since the British era.
In fact, many village women bind Rakhi at 1,450 ‘guardian trees’ at 27 district blocks in Rakshabandhan.
In the village of Rupani under the Block Patahi, the woman binds Rakhi on a cheek tree and takes an oath to protect this sacred tree.