BDA, BMC To Plant 27,750 Saplings In State Capital

Bhubaneswar: To compensate the massive loss of trees during the severe cyclonic storm Fani, that had damaged the green cover of Bhubaneswar, the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) have decided to plant 27,750 saplings at 27 locations across the city under the plantation micro plan.

While BDA has decided to plant 23,500 saplings at 11 different sites, BMC will plant 4,250 saplings at 26 locations.

The BDA plantation plan will be mostly in major city parks like Biju Patnaik Park (2,000), Indira Gandhi Park (1,000), Buddha Jayanti Park (1,500), Buddha Jayanti Park Hilltop (2,500), Madhusudan Das Park (2,000), Netaji Subash Bose Park (2,000), Kharvel Park (2,500), APJ Abdul Kalam Park (1,000), Mahatma Gandhi Park (500), Janata Maidan and its periphery (1,500), Kelucharan Mohapatra Park (2,000), Joggers Park CS Pur (500), Nayapalli Parks (1,000), Parks of BJB Nagar (700), Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Park (500), Parks of Sahid Nagar and Bhoi Nagar (300), Parks of Kalinga Nagar Area (500), Parks of Dumduma and Dharma Vihar area (500). Apart from the major parks, there will be a proposed buffer plan for new parks as well with 1,000 plantations.

Similarly, BMC will have plantations at places like Jharapada Melana Padia, Badagada Crematorium near school, Badagada Jharana Sahi, Badagada Melana Padia, News Jagannath Temple Pandara, Pahala, Sailashree Vihar, Kalinga Nagar K8, Chilli Pokhari to Garage Chhak, Kolathia, Bhotapada (Canal), Patrapada to AIIMS, Udayagiri Vihar Colony, Patrapada Boys School, IRC Village Square to Rental Square (Munda Sahi), Vishnupriya Apartment Salia Sahi, Dumuduma Sishu Mandir, Bhagabanpur Road and School, Raghunath Nagar School playground, Bharatpur, Laxmisagar canal, Nayapalli High School, Balianta Canal, Pokhariput bus terminal, GGP Colony crematorium and GGP Colony High School.

It has been decided that the new saplings to be grown will be of wind resistant varieties.