The Municipal Company of Gurugram (MCG) has set a goal of planting 500,000 shrubs and 50,000 tree saplings this monsoon, mentioned officers within the know of the matter on Tuesday.

Subhash Yadav, the nodal head of MCG’s surroundings and sustainability wing, mentioned the civic physique has give you 4 fundamental methods to make sure the saplings which can be planted this monsoon have a excessive survival charge and assist improve the town’s inexperienced cowl and verify air pollution.

Timber and shrubs having a excessive survival charge within the area will likely be planted in areas the place handled water is available and at areas the place giant tracts of vacant land can be found and greenbelts are correctly fenced.

“Most parks of the MCG are already linked to mini sewage therapy vegetation. As water is available each inside and close to parks, we're focusing on to plant a lot of the saplings close to them this monsoon. As well as, this 12 months, saplings will likely be fenced from all sides to make sure they're protected against each animals and any type of encroachment,” mentioned Yadav.

Greater than 900 parks fall within the jurisdiction of MCG. Attributable to house constraint, Yadav mentioned, bushes will primarily be planted in giant vacant plots, particularly in sectors close to the Gurugram-Manesar border, which had been taken up by the civic physique two years in the past. In addition to this, the MCG will even plant saplings on the medians and alongside stretches with a excessive quantity of site visitors for mud mitigation.

Civic officers mentioned parks, residential and business sectors, group centres, water our bodies, cremation grounds, drains, city forests, railway tracks, STPs, colleges, and faculties will likely be a number of the websites the place shrubs will likely be planted.

Elaborating on the type of shrubs to be planted, Yadav mentioned MCG has plans to plant peepal, banyan, amaltas (golden bathe tree), neem, gulmohar (royal poinciana), babool (gum arabic tree), and jamun as they've the next survival charge on this area.

Final 12 months, MCG planted 31,059 tree saplings and 193,523 shrubs whereas complete 105,910 saplings had been planted in 2020. Round 40,000 saplings had been planted in 2019, the primary time the MCG executed a city-wide sapling drive.

Of the 224,582 saplings planted final 12 months, greater than 200,000 saplings have survived, mentioned Yadav.

Civic officers mentioned a lot of the saplings will likely be procured from the civic physique’s 4 nurseries in Kadipur village, Sector 15- half I, Biodiversity Park close to Nathupur village, and Sector 46.

“Gurugram’s forest cowl has remained at 9% for the final 4 years, as per the Forest Survey of India (FSI) report. This exhibits that the MCG’s plantation drives aren’t having any vital impression. They should discover different choices to extend metropolis’s inexperienced cowl moreover simply finishing up plantation drives yearly,” mentioned Vaishali Rana, a city-based environmentalist.