Railways has joined hands with the forest departments of Punjab and Haryana to plant five lakh trees on rail land along tracks.<br/><br/> The Ministry in a release said, beside the greenery, the plantation along the tracks will also help in protecting railway land from encroachment. It said, the plantation drive will be carried out by the forest departments without declaring such land as protected forest areas with the provision for resumption of such land for developmental projects.<br/><br/> All zonal railways have been asked to execute similar agreements with their state forest departments concerned.