As many as 203 roads in Chennai to have saplings planted for increasing green cover
Posted on: 10/Dec/2018 11:50:40 AM
The corporation of Chennai has been doing many superb things for the sake of people. Green cover in Chennai is very important and to increase the green cover from 14.9% to 20.2%, the Chennai Corporation has been taking active interest. The news is the Chennai Corporation has identified as many as 203 roads for planting saplings during the northeast monsoon season.
According to an official belonging to the corporation, in a month of time the work on most of the roads would be completed. In this year in the first phase as many as 100 roads were identified by the corporation officials. Now as per the revised list the number of roads has been increased to 203 roads. This was confirmed by the official. It is important to note that a total of 23000 saplings were proposed and out of that 6000 saplings have been planted along the roads in places like Madhavaram and Sholinganallur etc. It is now revealed that works on various important roads like Anna Nagar Second Avenue, Tank Bund Road, College Road, R. K. Mutt Road plus in other roads like Haddows Road, Arcot Road, P.T. Rajan Salai, Rajamannar Salai, Mt. Poonamallee Road, ECR, Sardar Patel Road, Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Perumbur High Road, Kolathur Main Road, Paper Mills Road and Pulianthope High Road, would be taken up soon. In December, as many as 70 saplings would be planted in Anna Nagar Second Avenue.
One issue that has come out now is many commercial establishments present along the roads were not willing to plant saplings near their premises because of the fact that the saplings might hide their boards and signs etc. The superb piece of information is soon Ennore High Road would be home to as many as 800 saplings, inner ring road in Manali would have as many as 750 saplings, Paper Mills Road would get 500 saplings planted and Kolathur Main Road would have 300 saplings planted.
The lack of adequate space for planting saplings has been a major factor and due to this the roads in the core city areas would get fewer trees planted. It is known that large number of commercial establishments have been located along the Valluvar Kottam High Road. The latest news is corporation have been able to identify just 50 spots for planting saplings in the above mentioned road. One important point is the popular Sterling Road in Chennai would also get 50 saplings planted.
