Tree Plantation by BSB Delhi - Breathing Life into the Cityreathing

The world is too much with us. Late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
Little do we see in Nature that is ours – William Wordsworth

The importance of trees in purifying the air, as natural resources, maintaining the ecological balance, preventing soil erosion, as medicines, habitats for faunal species, providing nutrients to the soil etc. is well known. The present forest and tree cover in the country according to the State of Forest Report 2001 of the Forest Survey of India is 23.03 per cent. According to the National Forest Policy, the country is required to achieve a forest cover target of 25 per cent by 2007 and 33 per cent cover by 2012. Again, against the National Forest Policy requirement of 33 per cent forest cover in every State, Delhi’s figure is 10.2 per cent.

Prayatn Club, Corporate Social Initiative of BSB, Delhi therefore took the intitative of planting saplings to save the planet Earth. Prior to the plantation activity, students were briefed about the significance of native trees, how to plant them and their after care. The students of BSB took active part in planting the saplings outside the BSB Campus.

These saplings would benefit the environment and society and will also help to improve the green cover of Delhi. 

"The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth"
- Rabindranath Tagore