hyderabad in another feather in the cap of the city greater hyderabad has been recognized as a 2020 tree city of the world by the arbor day foundation and the food and agriculture organization of the united nations faotelanganas capital is the only city from india to have been recognized as a tree city the city was chosen for this recognition for its commitment towards growing and maintaining the urban forestaccording to the state government through this recognition hyderabad city will join a network of likeminded cities who recognise the importance of trees in building healthy resilient and happy citieshyderabad has earned recognition in the foundations second year of the programme along with 51 other cities in the world during 2020 cumulative 120 cities from 63 countries while being the only city in india to get this recognition so far most of the cities were from countries us uk canada australia etc officials saidmunicipal administration urban development department maud has applied to this recognition based on an online submission done on jan 31 2021 the state government has been implementing the haritha haram program since 2015 apart from that urban forest blocks are also being developed in identified pocketstrs working president and municipal minister kt rama rao tweeted happy to share that arbordav foundation which works with fao of un has recognized hyderabad as a tree city of the world the only indian city to be included in this list this is an acknowledgement of our efforts to improve green cover as part of harithaharam programmecongratulating hyderabad on earning 2020 tree cities of the world recognition alongside 120 cities from 63 countries dan lambe president arbor day foundation said that your city is part of an important global network leading the way in urban and community forestry he also said to further celebrate this distinction we will recognise hyderabad in a global press release on or around march 1 2021