Saplings planted at Ram Lal Bhasin School

The students and staff members planted one sapling each. The students were told how wonderful a tree is and how much it does for us and we cannot think of life without trees. As many as 500 saplings of trees like Sheesham,Gulmohar,Neem,Mulberry,Dek etc. were planted inside and outside the school campus and in Phase I,Dugri. The students planted them in the houses of Phase I also.

To inculcate in the students a concern for their environment,the school has constituted “Tarumitra Club”,which promotes plantation drive and works to fight pollution. The motto of the club is to keep Ludhiana “Clean and green”.The club has in the past also carried out plantation work and has converted garbage dump in Phase I,Dugri,into a green belt now.

The president of the school,Balraj Bhasin,director of the school,S Verma and the headmistress,Tarannum Fatma encouraged the students to plant at least one tree in a year which will give fruit,shelter and nourishment to some passersby and expressed their sincere thanks to the District Forest Office,Ludhiana for their kind gesture of donating saplings to the school. The officers today further promised to give 2,000 saplings to the school for its plantation drive.

As the students were planting trees today,Vijay Gupta of Nishkam Seva Ashram,a passerby was so impressed by the good work done by the students that he gave 500 saplings of fruit trees,like mango,blackberry,guava,tamarind,chikoo,lemon etc.