State treads the green road

Kerala is dreaming green. A cool State with all the National Highways and main roads lined with trees and people walking under the canopy is being envisioned. Schoolchildren were the first messengers of this verdant dream. Saplings were distributed to them across the State on Wold Environment Day for planting the dream. Now it's the turn of the labour force of Kerala. Vazhiyora Thanal — wayside shade — is the programme in which shade-giving trees would be planted on the medians and walkways with the cooperation of head-load workers. In Kochi, the Vyttila-Edapally road, Seaport-Airport road, Edapally–Angamaly stretch, Chathyath Church road and Thripunithura-SN junction road are some of the select roads for the programme, said R. Mohan Nair, Assistant Conservator (Social Forestry) of the State Forest Department. The State-level inauguration of the programme will be held on June 30 at the SDY School auditorium, Ponnurunni, and the planting of sapling will be held at Vyttila.

 

(The Hindu, 27.06.07)