BHUPALAPALLI, SEPTEMBER 14, 2025: Singareni Collieries Company Limited Chairman and Managing Director N Balaram, who has entered record books by planting over 20,000 saplings across Singareni locations, had taken up the plantation of saplings as part of Vanamahotsavam programme at Bhupalapalli area at the new nursery grounds located behind the Millennium quarters in Bhupalapalli on Sunday.
Bhupalpalli MLA Gandra Satyanarayana Rao and the CMD participated as the chief guests. The programme began with the MLA and the CMD planting saplings and watering them. Later, nature enthusiast Mr Balaram personally planted 370 saplings at one stretch. On this occasion, the MLA congratulated him. He also advised that everyone should necessarily plant saplings for the protection of the environment.
So far, the Singareni CMD has created a record as the first Civil Services Officer to plant more than 20,000 saplings in personal plantation efforts. A known environmental enthusiast, Mr Balaram began his tree-planting mission on June 5, 2019, on the occasion of World Environment Day. Since then, he has planted 20,000 saplings across 53 locations within SCCL.
