HYDERABAD, Telangana: As part of the Telangana Ku Haritha Haram (TKHH), Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has proposed to undertake one crore plantation in the financial year 2023-24.
Dense plantation will be carried out around the lakes, educational institutions, open spaces, graveyards, hospitals, colonies, parks, playgrounds, jail campuses, avenue plantation and multilayer avenue plantation. Apart from that, vertical plantation will also be done underneath flyovers.
The measures undertaken to increase green spaces during the financial year 2023-24, have been released by the urban local body as part of the ‘ten-year activity report’ of the Urban Biodiversity wing of GHMC. The report also informed that between 2014 and April 2023, around 456 landscape parks have been built in the colony spaces. Also, the GHMC has built 985 parks including 19 major parks spread over five acres of land, 17 theme parks, including dog parks, Panchatantra parks and interactive science parks etc.
Between 2014-15 and 2022-23, the urban local body set a plantation target of 741 lakhs, out of which GHMC has completed 698.78 lakhs, including the plantation exercises done under different components and homestead plant distribution. Local body has also created 600 ward-level nurseries since 2020-21, and since 2014 GHMC has completed 1,120.67 km of avenue plantation.
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