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.
