Siruthuli as part of its drive has plans for planting 1.5 million saplings to enhance the green cover and already more than four lakh saplings have been planted across the city.
As part of the Pasumai Payanam, Siruthuli, an NGO involved in nature conservation, in association with Railways, Forest Department and German multinational Robert Bosch commenced a drive for planting saplings at the Podanur Railway Quarters.
Challenge
The major challenge faced by Siruthuli was in maintaining the saplings and protecting them.
Identifying protected areas for planting saplings and nurturing it with the support of the residents of the locality was the initiative, under which Podanur Railway Quarters was chosen.
Of the 3,200 saplings planned for the quarters, as many as 1,400 were planted on Friday. Vanitha Mohan, Managing Trustee of Siruthuli, R. Raveendran, Secretary of Residents Awareness Association of Coimbatore, Grote Walter, Senior Executive of Robert Bosch, Venugopal, Vice-President – Commercial, Navita Singh, Chief Workshop Manager of Southern Railway – Podanur, M.B. Srinivasan, Additional Divisional Engineer – Podanur, and S.M. Natarajan, Range Officer – Coimbatore, planted the saplings.
The species planted on Friday included neem, mahagony, rosewood, vaagai, pungan, neermathi, iyal vaagai, sorgam and kumizh.
More than 500 volunteers from schools and colleges were involved in the drive. Robert Bosch, as part of their corporate social responsibility will help nurture the saplings through drip irrigation system to ensure 100 per cent survival.
Keywords: Pasumai Payanam, Siruthuli, Robert Bosch
Well Done Siruthuli...Siruthuli is truely a social friendly
organisation...Those 1400 saplings once they become 1400 trees..its
really a huge count ...Every body should strive to get back the greenary
lost (trees) in Kovai for road streching and other activties in the name
of developement...everybody should plant at least one sapling during
this monsoon season,the survival rate will definetely be positive in
monsoon...nurturing the sapling wont be a problem in monsoon as compared
with summer...
It is an excellent idea that Siruthuli is identifying these colonies for
tree plantation. The universities in Ettimadai and Siruvani should also
be roped in to re-plant on the foothills to increase greenery on the
once green Coimbatore hills.
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