Gujarat CM Bhupendra Launches Mission 5 Million Trees, Mobile Pollution Lab 'Environment Day'

Ahmedabad has set an ambitious target of planting 50 lakh (five million) trees during the 2026?27 fiscal year. This initiative is part of an expanded urban greening drive aimed at increasing green cover, improving air quality, and mitigating rising heat stress driven by rapid urbanisation.

Launching the ?Mission Five Million Trees? campaign on World Environment Day, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel flagged off a Mobile Real-Time Source Apportionment Laboratory. He also inaugurated a Miyawaki-based Clean-On Forest Development Project alongside a large-scale plantation programme at Chandkheda.

The initiative,



spearheaded by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), comes as the city aggressively seeks to combat the ?urban heat island effect,? which officials warn has intensified alongside rapid population growth and concrete urban expansion. According to the AMC, higher temperatures are now retained for longer periods, with severe heat conditions persisting for several hours well after peak daytime temperatures have dropped.

The newly launched Mobile Source Apportionment Laboratory, developed under the Smart Sensing and Digital Intelligence Project, is engineered to scientifically identify and map the principal contributors to air pollution across Ahmedabad.