KATHMANDU: Siddhartha Bank Ltd (SBL) has celebrated the World Environment Day by organising various programmes in all seven provinces.

On the occasion, programmes such as clean-up campaigns and tree plantations, ticket competition among employees, distribution of reusable cotton bags and 'No Print Day' were organised in various places with overwhelming

participation of the bank's employees, as per a press release.

The bank planted a total of 581 saplings in all the seven provinces of the country as part of the tree plantation and also organised clean-up programmes in various public places.

The bank believes that such workers will make a significant contribution to the protection of the environment, improvement of human health and sustainable development.

A version of this article appears in the print on June 7, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.