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‘VUDA playing vital role in Green Visakha project’

Tuesday, 06 August 2013 05:38 administrator
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The Hindu               06.08.2013 

‘VUDA playing vital role in Green Visakha project’

Special Correspondent

VUDA has been playing a vital role in making the Green Visakha Project a reality, apart from acting as a guiding agency in its implementation, said Vice-Chairman N. Yuvaraj on Monday.

So far 12,000 saplings were planted at various places with successful survival rate and further action plan has also been taken up to fill vacant places available at all VUDA layouts and housing schemes, he said on Monday after a meeting to review the implementation of the project.

He insisted the participating industries to shoulder the responsibility as a social obligation. He said successful implementation of the Green Visakha Project would not only contribute for making Visakhapatnam a pollution free city but help fetch the city a pride of place at the global level.

The participating industries were allocated areas for plantation and targets were to be reached before the completion of the season, Mr. Yuvaraj told the representatives attended the meeting. Industries lagging behind should cover plantation of given number of saplings with no delay as the Parliamentary Committee dealing with it is very particular about the progress of the project, he said.

 

Plant saplings

Friday, 19 July 2013 05:36 administrator
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The Hindu             19.07.2013

Plant saplings

Municipal Commissioner G.S. Pandadas has asked the officials to explore the possibility of planting saplings in open places and on canal bunds in the city. The Commissioner, who visited various localities on Thursday, said that the parks could be developed in the open places. The critical dumper bins should reach the yard as per schedule so that the roads would not look dirt and garbage overflowing the bins. In charge chief medical officer of health Dr. P. Ratnavali, AMOH Dr. Babu Srinivas, solid waste management Dy, EE Venkata Ramana and others were present.

 

GHMC on ‘green mission’

Friday, 12 July 2013 05:21 administrator
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The Hindu              12.07.2013

GHMC on ‘green mission’

This monsoon, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is preparing to add to the city’s green cover by planting one lakh saplings as part of the afforestation drive.

In a departure from the trend of earlier such drives when large scale planting of exotic species used to be taken up, the focus this time will be on native species that are to be planted on the main road medians, colony roads and layout open spaces.

Some of the local plant species selected for the programme includes ‘Neem’, ‘Kanuga’ and ‘Neredu’. According to the official more than 2.50 lakh saplings were being raised in 15 nurseries of the GHMC located in different parts of the city.

“We will be using one lakh of them this year and the rest will grow and be ready for next year’s drive,” Additional Commissioner (Urban Biodiversity), N. Chandramohan Reddy, said. Some of the bigger nurseries of GHMC are located at Rajendranagar, Nallagandla, Indira Park, HPS Begumpet, Chitra Layout and Chacha Nehru Park.

There will be exotic species too but the effort this time is to go for native species in more numbers. “It is not that we do not like the exotic plants but the focus is on local species as they are more helpful for birds in setting up nests and look for food and also nectar for butterflies,” he explained.

Species matrix

The effort is also to improve the species matrix and bring in diversity with more different plant species. “Earlier few limited species were being used for plantation drive which we have increased to encompass a range of around 100 species,” the official said. Of the one lakh plants, GHMC is making arrangements to have at least 50,000 with tree guards to ensure their safety till they grow to a certain age.

 
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