Office of CAG establishes urban forest at Delhi
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Office of CAG establishes urban forest at Delhi

The urban forest was inaugurated by Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar.

Office of CAG establishes urban forest at Delhi

New Delhi: Keeping in view of the menacing air pollution levels prevalent in the adjoining areas, the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, which is located at the Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, has taken steps to establish an ‘urban forest’ in the office park in New Delhi.

As there is limited space, local materials were adopted to enable intensive afforestation. The forest has trees which are native to the area. 

The urban forest was inaugurated by Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar. He expressed happiness and said that it would be a dense urban forest. “There are multiple tree layers including 12,000 saplings of 59 indigenous species,” he said.

Continuing further, the minister said that the urban forest will act as an oxygen bank and carbon sink. He said, “Miyawaki method of forest creation is employed which could help in reducing the temperature by as much as 14 degree and increase the moisture by more than 40 per cent.”

Some rare species planted in the urban forest are Anogeissus pendula (Dhonk), Diospyros cordifolia (Bistendu), Ehretia laevis (chamrod), Wrightia tinctoria (Doodhi), Mitragyna parvifolia (Kaim), Butea monosperma (Palash), Prosopis cineraria (Khejri), Clerodendrum phlomidis(Arni), Grewia asiatica (Falsa), Phoenix sylvestris (Khajoor) and Helicteres isora (Marodphali).