Sriganganagar, November 6
Gurusar Modian near Sriganganagar is being developed as an ‘adarsh gram’ (model village). It will soon reportedly have a unique variety of ornamental trees. A comprehensive campaign was launched to develop greenery in the village this weekend by planting Alfa gulcheen saplings. Architect and landscaping expert Kuldeep Singh and Mohan Lal informed that 3170 saplings would be planted in and around the village to give it a picturesque look.
Each house will also be provided with plants at the entrance. The organisers of the green clean village campaign have decided to plant saplings of Washing Tonya, Bottle Palm, Acoma gory on all sides of water reservoir while Ashoka, Bottle Palm, Molsari, Gulmohur are to be planted on both sides of the roads that link the village with the main road.
Sarpanch Nirmal Kaur and her husband Nazar Singh said all the streets had been widened by removing encroachments by persuasions. The boundary walls of all the houses are being given light green paint coating. Earlier hundreds of women led by the sarpanch had staged day-long dharna and gheraoed the liquor shop. Notably, they had initially approached all the shopkeepers in the village to get the sale of tobacco products stopped for ever.
While adopting a soft posture to ensure that the shopkeepers do not face economic loss, they had purchased the entire stock of such products and later set the heap afire at the ‘chaupal’ (common place of meeting).
Scores of men had also extended support to the drive. The sarpanch and other activists claimed that soon, the tourists visiting this village after a few months, would witness a remarkable change in the environment.
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Special Report in The Tribune
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