“Our target is to project best of Delhi to whole world”: AAP Minister Atishi ahead of G20 Summit

New Delhi [India]: Ahead of the G20 Summit next month, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Minister Atishi on Wednesday conducted an inspection of the Rajghat and said that the aim is to project the best of Delhi to the whole world.

Atishi said,” Rajghat is an important spot where delegates and heads of state will visit. We inspected the beautification work being done here. Our target is to project the best of Delhi to the whole world.”

Earlier today Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said that the city government has completed 69 per cent of its work of planting trees this year. Gopal Rai said that a total of 30,20,356 saplings were planted by 21 departments ahead of the crucial summit in September.

The Delhi government undertook a mission to plant 52 lakh saplings this year, Gopal Rai said adding that they fixed the benchmark to complete 50 per cent of the work ahead of the G20 summit.

“Before G20 and after G20, to increase Delhi’s green belt, the Delhi government in coordination with 21 departments decided to plant 52 lakh plants the year.

As part of the Summer Action Plan, we decided to complete 50 per cent of the work of planting trees ahead of the G20 summit,” Gopal Rai said.

The G20 summit will be held in Delhi on September 9 and 10. India assumed the G20 Presidency on December 1 last year.

G20 was founded in 1999 after the Asian financial crisis as a forum for Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors to discuss global economic and financial issues.

It was upgraded to the level of Heads of State or Government in the wake of the global economic and financial crisis of 2007, and, in 2009, was designated the “premier forum for international economic cooperation”.

The G20 nations represent around 85 per cent of the global GDP, over 75 per cent of the global trade, and about two-thirds of the world population.