The Hindu        28.11.2014   

Corporation plans to create green belts in city

Mayor P. Rajkumar (second right) and Corporation Commissioner K.
Vijayakarthikeyan (right) planting a sapling at the sewage water
treatment plant at Ondipudur in the city on Thursday.

The Corporation is planning to create a green belt on the premises housing large buildings in the city.

Mayor
P. Rajkumar said that they have started identifying vast areas of
vacant land on the premises of public sector establishments and holding
talks with the officials to plant saplings.He said this after
inaugurating the tree plantation drive at the sewage water treatment
plant of the Corporation’s underground drainage project at Ondipudur on
Thursday.

The Mayor said that they would be planting
another 450 saplings in a phased manner. “Most of the trees will be
aromatic to control the bad odour from emanating from the treatment
plant,” he said.

Mr. Rajkumar said that the green
belt would be made mandatory right from the planning stage to get the
Town and Country Planning Department approval and implementation would
also be strictly followed. “Efforts would be taken to urge the existing
establishments to establish a green belt,” he added.

Corporation
officials said that they are also planning to improve the green cover
in education institutions too. Corporation Commissioner K.
Vijayakarthikeyan and other Corporation officials were also present.