The aim of the state sector scheme ‘Maguvigondu Mara Salegondu Vana (A sapling for each child and a forest for each school) is to create awareness about ecology and environment among school children and to encourage them to plant trees voluntarily. Seedlings are supplied free of cost to the school children to plant them in their school compounds and in the open space of their residential premises. With the co-ordination of the Education Department, students from the level of primary schools to colleges all over the state are involved in the tree planting programme. In order to give more focus to the concept of tree planting in schools, a new programme “Talukigondu Hasiru Shala Vana” has been launched with the objective of having at least one school forest in each taluk.