A Kerala-based environmental group has pitched in for the green campus drive at the Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer).
Samskrithi, an organisation based in Adakkaputhur in Palakkad, recently sponsored 100 jackfruit saplings for the sprawling Jipmer campus.
“We’ve been looking to increase the proportions of fruit-bearing trees on the campus,” says Deepak, a volunteer with Jipmer’s Plantation Committee which oversees the ‘green campus’ drive.
Though there have been sporadic sapling planting efforts within the campus, it was only after the constitution of a Plantation Committee about six months ago that greening of the campus has become a coordinated effort.
Samskrithi
Though Jipmer usually sources some varieties of saplings from other nurseries, the 100 saplings were sponsored by Samskrithi.
Jipmer Director S.C. Parija, Dr. Surendra Kumar Verma, chairman of the Plantation Committee and Samskrithi volunteers led by Rajesh Adakkaputhur planted the first set of saplings. Jipmer’s first year MBBS students have been tasked to plant the saplings across the campus and also nourish the plants on a daily basis. The Plantation Committee next plans to plant 50 saplings of the deciduous ‘nelli’ or the Phyllanthus emblica on the campus.
Source : The Hindu
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