Metropolitans in India have now started adopting methods for achieving eco-friendly lifestyles and increasing green cover. A recent green initiative taken in the bustling city of Bengaluru in Karnataka, India  has suceeded in inspiring numerous other cities in the country, where environmental health in often overlooked.

Bengaluru is inetrestingly known as the 'Garden City of India'. Being India's major IT (Information Technology) hub however, its issues pertaining with mass urbanization have unfortunately overlapped with environmental concerns. With a whopping population of about  8.4 million ( more than that of Israel's total population!) , Bengaluru's ecological conditions have undoubtedly been deteriorating with each passing year. A fresh initiative taken by an NGO called Say Trees has however, served as a ray of hope for many.

A large vertical garden, which is the first of its kind in the city, has recently been installed bellow a Metro Rail Flyover in Hosur road. It consists of 3,500 saplings of 10 varied species, that are to be watered for about 30 minutes each day through a sophisticated network of automatic drip irrigators so as to prevent wastage of excess water. A fun fact to know is that the entire garden takes up only 100ml of water everyday!

Speaking about the project, Kapil Sharma, co-founder of Say Trees says, ?Working in the field of environmental conservation for about 10 years, we saw that the city was being flooded with concrete pillars to support the numerous metro works and flyovers. There was so much real state which lays fallow. That got us thinking about making use of them to add to the greenery.?

The enormous Organic garden, besides serving as a feast for the eyes, also helps in reducing the impact carbon footprint and helps the area of getting rid of smog and toxic air pollutants. The project was executed with the help of Bangalore Elevated Tollway Pvt Ltd.  which has cleverly placed the garden at a distance of eight inches from the flyover pillar to prevent damage caused by new installations.

The voluntary organisation plans to further install many other such gardens on flyovers by urging  corporates to aid them for the same through their CSR projects.

We Indians applaud SayTrees's wonderful initiative to minimize environmental damage and to restore back the same old charm of India's garden city!

What are your views on this remarkable green initiative? :D

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