Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi marked World Environment Day by posting messages on Mission LiFE, planting a sapling and reviewing projects in Surat to highlight expanding green cover and wildlife recovery.
- A countrywide 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam' drive mobilised Union ministers, MPs and BJP leaders to plant saplings, turning a symbolic campaign into large public participation.
- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu cycled in Visakhapatnam, planted trees and announced a target to raise the state's green cover to 50 percent plus plans to make Andhra University a net-zero model campus.
- Government agencies and firms reported large operational steps, with the South Eastern Railway’s Chakradharpur division planting 100,000 saplings and Tata Steel UISL pledging one tree per e-bill while converting municipal waste to compost.
- Civil-society groups used the day to both join plantation drives and protest development-linked forest loss, a tension that could force closer oversight of planting follow-up, land-use decisions and long-term sapling care.