Kalam asks youth to plant trees to check pollution

Former President A P J Abdul Kalam asked the youth of the country to contribute in checking pollution by planting trees.

"The nation has 300 million youth. If each one could plant five saplings, the country can easily have 1.5 billion trees. Assuming that about half-a-billion saplings goes, still we can have one million trees. A great achievement," he said while interacting with students of Mount Carmel College,Bangalore.