Government today launched the School Nursery Yojana, to bring students closer to nature by involving them in raising of saplings in school nurseries. Addressing students at the function to launch the scheme in New Delhi, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said there can be no better combination than that of students and trees. The Minister reiterated the Prime Minister's message on the occasion of World Environment Day to take pride in the number of trees planted by the family.<br/><br/>Urging every student to plant a tree each, Mr Javadekar said that every school must earmark space to prepare a small nursery where the saplings could be planted. The Minister also presented a sapling and a packet of seeds to students from each school for planting in their school. He exhorted the students to take the grown sapling planted by them along with their annual results to their homes.