The New Indian Express 06.06.2013
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has planned to grow trees in vacant sites belonging to it, across the city.
Addressing
a gathering after planting a sapling at the BBMP premises on the
occasion of World Environment Day on Wednesday, Commissioner M
Lakshminarayana said he has instructed officials to plant saplings at
vacant BBMP sites in all eight zones.
According to this plan, two
saplings will be planted in sites with dimension 60×40, three in 50×80
sites and four in sites measuring more than 50×80. If there is space of
one acre, 25 saplings will be planted.
In order to make
tree-felling operations in Bangalore transparent, the BBMP has planned
to upload data about trees that need to be felled on their website. This
service will be made available within the next three months. The BBMP
is also planning to take up tree mapping exercises to get acute and
scientific data of trees and saplings in Bangalore.
Venkatesh Murthy pointed out that during this year’s monsoon, the BBMP
has planned to plant a total of 1.6 lakh saplings in Bangalore.