Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Gujarat for the development of mangrove forest in around 3500-acre area of Marine National Park under the Central Government’s MISHTI (Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats & Tangible Incomes) scheme. In the presence of Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change, and Labour and Employment Shri Bhupender Yadav and Jamnagar and Dwarka Lok Sabha MP Smt. Poonamben Madam, the MoU was signed by the Minister of Tourism, Cultural Activities & Forest and Environment, Government of Gujarat Shri Mulubhai Bera and Director of Corporate Affairs at RIL, and Rajya Sabha MP Shri Parimal Nathwani. As per the MoU, the mangroves forest will be developed at a cost of Rs. 510 lakh in the next five years.

Shri Bhupender Yadav and other dignitaries also visited the world’s biggest elephant camp run by Radhe Krishna Temple Elephant Welfare Trust and the world’s biggest leopard rescue centre and other wild animal rescue centers operated by Greens Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Center (GZRRC). It should be noted that in this huge campus the animals rescued from different parts of India and foreign countries are kept and they are taken care of by providing world-class rehabilitation facilities and medical treatment. Union Minister Shri Bhupender Yadav praised the scientific approach used and the world-class facilities provided to the elephants, leopards, crocodiles, and other wild animals in these centers.

The event saw the participation of Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change, and Labour and Employment Shri Bhupender Yadav, Shri Mulubhai Bera, Minister of Tourism, Cultural Activities & Forest and Environment, Government of Gujarat, Smt.  Poonamben Madam, Member of Parliament, Jamnagar and Dwarka, Shri Uday Kangad, Member of Legislative Assembly, Rajkot, Director of Corporate Affairs at RIL, and Rajya Sabha MP Shri Parimal Nathwani, Shri Chandra Prakash Goyal, Director General of Forests and Special Secretary, MoEF&CC, Shri S.K. Chaturvedi, PCCF & HoFF, Gujarat, and other top forest officials from the Government of India and the Government of Gujarat.