33. Reading Skills Comprehension: Tree depicts life

Tree depicts life

Tree depicts life

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“The tree depicts life, so when you are in the midst of this forest area and participating in this attempt to grow more trees, you are actually promoting healthy living in the world,” said Delhi lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung. Citing his own childhood, he also told schoolchildren that it was their duty to go outside and enjoy nature and to ensure that the capital’s green cover was preserved.

Jung was speaking on Friday while inaugurating the Neela Hauz Biodiversity Park as part of the Green Drive launched by TOI with Hero MotoCorp and the Delhi Development Authority (DDA). Jung planted a sapling to mark the start of the day’s activities. By evening, over 10,000 saplings had been planted at Neela Hauz, DDA’s newest biodiversity park. Commending TOI on taking up this initiative, Jung said Delhi needed to create and protect a green cover for future generations.

Over 500 children from 11 different schools under NIE took part in the drive on Friday. They planted a number of native Aravalli tree species that included Kullu, basal, Barbara, bel, dharma and babool. Over 10 different kinds of threatened Aravalli shrubs were planted at the biodiversity park. The fruit that these bear are known to attract different bird species.

Jung compared Delhi’s green cover favourably with those in European cities and said it was the children’s responsibility and of future generations to protect it.”Delhi is a wonderfully green city. Delhi has more green cover than most European cities, but slowly, as more and more people come in and as there is more colonisation, we are harming our green cover. It is your responsibility now to make sure that this green cover actually grows and the Ridge also grows,” he said.

Under DDA, the near 10-acre biodiversity park has also seen the revival of a dead water body through a constructed wetland system designed by scientists and engineers of DDA. Sewage water flowing into the water body is now naturally treated through the wetland that is home now to 20 different species of aquatic plants and gradient levels constituted of pebbles to naturally cleanse the water.

“Close to one million litres of treated water is now flowing each day and we have only used natural means to revive the lake,” informed CR Babu, professor emeritus of Delhi University and head of the Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems. “The BOD (biological oxygen demand) level has also come down and we are already seeing ducks coming here. Microbes are naturally cleaning the sewage water after the sludge is removed by the pebbles.”

Vijay Sethi, chief information officer and CSR head of Hero Mo toCorp, felt the Hero TOI Green Drive will serve twin objectives. “We are not only planting trees, but also preserving the natural heritage of Delhi,” said Sethi. “Involving children means the idea of planting trees get inculcated in them at an early age and they can do their bit for nature by planting trees in their neighbourhoods as well.”

Questions                                                                                                                    

1.What do you actually promote when you attempt to grow more trees?

2. What did Najeeb Jung advise the school children?

3. How many saplings were planted in the Neela Hauz, DDA’s Biodiversity Park, in a single day?

4. How many children and schools took part in the drive?

5. How does Jung compare Delhi’s green cover with those in European cities?

6. What means have they used to revive the lake?

7. What is the other aim of Hero TOI Green Drive beside planting trees?

8. What is the aim of involving schools children in the Green drive?

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