'Sanjeevan Van Udyan': 35-acre Urban Forest to be Developed as 'Oxygen Park' in this city
'Sanjeevan Van Udyan': 35-acre Urban Forest to be Developed as 'Oxygen Park' in this city
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Pune Municipal Corporation is planning to have an almost 35-acre urban forest housing medicinal plants and herbs are set to come up in Pune’s Warje Malwadi. Called the ‘Sanjeevan Udyan’, it is to be developed jointly by PMC and the forest dept, The Media reported. The report added that while inaugurating it, the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, Ajit Pawar, said it would be developed as an oxygen park. Corporate Deepali Dhumal of the PMC said that even though many oxygen plants were set up in Pune, this one would be permanent.

“There is a demand to increase forest cover in the city and this park will meet the oxygen needs of residents in the area and city. Both the PMC and forest department will be working jointly to develop the urban forest,” the report quoted her as saying. The report further mentioned the forest department said that the urban jungle would implement pollution control and beautification in addition to the planting of medicinal plants. The planting of native trees is to be given priority in the area.

This is not the first case of such an initiative in Pune. group of nature enthusiasts in Pune has proved where there is a will, there is a way’ by creating in the city a patch of forest cover over more than 30 acres of land, which was once worthless but is home to thousands of indigenous trees now. This urban forest named ‘Anand Van’ is located in the NIBM area and it has been developed over the last few years by Anand Van Mitra Mandal (AVMM) on the land owned by the forest department, which has appreciated the group’s work. This voluntary group roped in local citizens, students, conservationists, corporates, and children from nearby slums in its uphill task of transforming the arid land into a green zone by carrying out weekly tree plantation drives.

As the world reels from severe climate conditions due to human activities alone, India will witness more heatwaves, droughts, rainfall and cyclonic activities in the coming decades, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted. The country has observed severe conditions such as heavy rains, which have led to frequent unprecedented floods, Uttarakhand in 2013, Kerala in 2018, Hyderabad in 2020 and Goa in 2021 – and cyclones, heatwaves and cold waves. This has not only affected human lives but the entire ecology.

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