Residents take up Green Velachery project
The Hindu
Welfare associations, environmental activists come together to plant hundreds of saplings
A group of residents’ welfare associations and environmental activists have come together to make Velachery a green locality. The members, under the Green Velachery project, have begun planting more than 1,000 saplings along the elevated tracks of the Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) near Perungudi railway station. The area along the railway tracks was previously covered with wild bushes and Karuvelam trees, which were cleared by the Green Velachery team after getting permission from Southern Railway. The railway officials helped in the environmental cause by clearing all the wild bushes and removing the Karuvelam trees using an excavator.More Related News
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