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Capital to get nine new city forests
| Green Delhi is set to get greener |
Green revolution: The target: 25 per cent green cover by 2010.
NEW DELHI: Green Delhi will soon get greener with the State Environment Department all set to start work on the nine new forests it proposes to create this year to ensure that the Capital is able to achieve its aim of having a 25 per cent green cover by 2010.
Of the proposed nine forests for which work begins this coming weekend, the first on the list is Najafgarh drain (Chawala) where the banks have been prepared to house 12,000 trees. The other areas that will be greened under the project include land allocated in various rural areas of Delhi.
“The city earlier created 14 forests and our department managed to create nine new forests last year. We are aiming at giving Delhi nine more this year. This is a huge exercise we are undertaking and hope we are able to use the monsoon to the best advantage of the city,” said State Environment, Forest and Wildlife Secretary J. K. Dadoo.He described it as a huge, coordinated effort by various departments all working to increasing the green cover of the city. “Increased concretisation and vehicular capacity and dwindling groundwater levels in the city have forced us to ensure that there is enough cushion available to the city. Tree plantation is a vital exercise that is carried out by the department to ensure that we are able to take forward our commitment to improve the forest cover and ensure that the message to stay green goes down to the general public,” said B.C. Sabata, senior scientific officer in Environment Dept.
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