The Vellore Corporation will soon begin planting saplings across the city. Mayor P Karthiyayini said, “A project to plant 50,000 saplings across the city had been mentioned in the budget for the year 2013-2014. With the onset of rains, there is a plan to immediately kick-start the project.”

Planting saplings during slight showers was also good for trees, she said and added that an estimation of the project and types of saplings would be decided soon.

The project was not only aimed at beautifying the city but would also increase the green cover in the district, bring more rains and increase the ground water level, she said.

Karthiyayini said the Corporation had also been taking various other initiatives to make the city greener such as renovating the corporation parks, forming new science parks, creating gardens on traffic circles and construction of a  herbal farm on the premises of the Corporation office.