More Than 650 Saplings Planted At Bellandur Lake
Rotary Club Bangalore Lakeside, Suncity Apts, Sobha Group of Apts with the help of BBMP celebrated World Environment day by conducting Tree Plantation Drive in the adjacent of Bellandur Lake. Bellandur Lake had been recently fenced by BBMP to avoid unauthorized occupation of land and BBMP was planning to rejuvenate the lake and a proposal worth more than Rs 350 Crores was under discussion. However the fence is open at places hence cattle access is not ruled out. Members of Rotary Club Bangalore Lakeside, Suncity Apts, Sobha Group of apartments planned a Tree Plantation Drive on World Environment Day on Jun 5th Saturday.
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Team for Tree Plantation Drive
It was really a team work of residents in and around Bellandur Lake which resulted in success of Tree Plantation Drive. For organizing event, buying plants and spreading awareness among residents, members of Rotary Club Bangalore Lakeside, Suncity Apts, Sobha Group of apartments and residents of Sarjapur road formed 4 to 5 teams. Fund Raising team to buy saplings of 3 ft to 8 ft height of various types and maintaining them for at least one year, Finance Team to manage accounts and to bring transparency, Tree Selection. Procurement team for selecting and procure saplings. Publicity and Community Participation team to spread awareness among residents, apartments and associations and finally the Event Management Team to manage the event on 5th Jun.
Tree Plantation on Tree Plantation Drive
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HSBC sponsored the event with more than 200 trees and about 60 employees of HSBC participated in Tree Plantation Drive. The tree plantation was divided in 3 distinct areas One behind SunCity apartments, another behind Euphoria apartments and another Behind Sobha Group of apartments. Volunteers , more than 200 residents and around 30 children along with their teacher from nearby government school at Iblur participated the event very enthusiastically.
Due to rains on earlier day, the whole terrain was very muddy yet about 200 residents (including HSBC employees) participated in the event which started at 8 am and went till 12:30 pm. More than 650 Saplings were successfully planted in Tree Plantation Drive at Bellandur Lake. About 350 saplings or trees were planted behind SunCity, about 220 trees were planted behind Euphoria and about 100 saplings were planted behind Sobha Apts.
“We would like to extend our heartiest thanks to BBMP officials like Mr Jagannath Rao and staff especially Mr Narayan, Mr Nagaraj and laborers who worked tirelessly to make this event happen. Our special thanks goes to Chief Engineer Satish BV, Forest Officer Jagannath Rao, Narayan and Nagaraj. Thanks to Varun Yagain and Jayaprakash from HSBC to manage the Euphoria side. Paritosh Maheshwari, Harshad Dave, Sonika Dave, Bharat Bhushan, G M Shah, Mr D B Bardhan and Rahul managed the Suncity side. Residents of Sobha apartments and Rotarians Sunil Kand, Vinay, Vinod Agarwal, Ankit Maheshwari, T V Srinivasan and Jiten managed the Sobha apartments side. Special thanks to school children and all who participated in the event enthusiastically and made Tree Plantation Drive successful.” said members of Rotary Club Bangalore Lakeside, Suncity Apts, Sobha Group of apartments.
Courtesy: Mr. Hariprakash Agarwal(President, Suncity Apartments Association) & Rotary Bangalore Lakeside.
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