PM inaugurates Miyawaki garden next to Statue of Unity

EKTA NAGAR, Gujarat: In Ekta Nagar, Gujarat next to the 182-meter-high Statue of Unity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated three sites including a Maze Garden. Modi also dedicated a ‘Miyawaki’ forest and a houseboat, according to a government release. The document added that on the first day of his three-day visit to Gujarat, the PM and Chief Minister of Gujarat Bhupendra Patel arrived in Ekta Nagar, formerly known as Kevadia, in the Narmada district to inaugurate these new sites.

The newly added maze (labyrinth) garden spread across three acres with the path of 2,100 metres is the largest maze garden in the country and has been developed in just a short period of eight months.

As many 1,80,000 saplings have been planted by local authority to upgrade the beauty of maze garden, which has been created at a location initially used as a dumping site. The approach invented by the Japanese ecologist and botanist Dr Akira Miyawaki gave rise to this type of forest. It entails planting saplings next to one another, creating a dense urban forest. By using this method, vegetation develops ten times faster, leading to a forest that is thirty times denser.