Green Vision: A Young Indian’s Promise To Save Surroundings

The fervor and promise of a single man resulted into the plantation of approximately 25,000 plants in the city of Patiala in Punjab — a noble attempt to revitalize the green cover of this famous city and conserve surroundings.

“From the past 3.5 years, our organization had carried plantation of around 25,000 tree saplings in many areas of Patiala district,” Rajneesh Kumar, a research scholar and president of the Paryavaran Welfare Society (PWS), told the Epoch Times.

The PWS was set up in the year 2009, as a scheme to uphold biodiversity, guard “paryavaran” (environment), and save energy resources at local level.

To keep an eye on saplings’ endurance rate after plantation, the group visits each plantation site after a period of 15 days. The inhabitants who volunteered to assist in preservation of the floras were made fellow members of the association, thus creating consciousness and involving the local society.

“As action speaks louder than mere education in the form of lectures, villagers are now getting involved in caring of trees.” “The tree saplings planted by our organization are growing in healthy condition and their survival percent is above 90 percent.”

Trees uphold ecological poise and are necessary from the facets of human endurance and sustainable growth.

But, as per a report by the Forest Survey of India (FSI), the forest and tree cover of the nation is 78.29 million hectare that makes 23.81% of its geographical region.

Fifteen Indian states recorded overall increase of 5,000 sq km in their forest cover with Punjab leading with augmentation of 100 sq. km.