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In a bid to beautify school compounds and create awareness about urban organic farming amongst students, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has kicked off a pilot project to install kitchen gardens across 25 civic-run schools in the city.
As a part of the project, which was launched by Education Minister Deepak Kesarkar at Dadar’s Woollen Mills Municipal school on July 15, the civic body has joined hands with an NGO, Project Mumbai, to develop kitchen gardens in 25 city schools.
Besides the Dadar municipal school, the pilot project has taken off at Wadala’s Nadkarni Park Marathi School and two Mumbai Public Schools (MPS), one in Matunga and other at Jogeshwari’s Poonam Nagar.
While some schools have utilised their terrace space, others have been developing these gardens in the open ground. Jogeshwari’s MPS Poonam Nagar school is one of them.
At Jogeshwari’s MPS, their once vacant ground has now transformed into a small kitchen garden where students have cultivated vegetables like ladyfinger, chilis, bitter gourd and pumpkin.
Vandana Tiwari, head mistress of the Jogeshwari school, said, “We started the soil-less farming in our school’s ground and our plantations are being cultivated in milk crates. The idea is to also encourage students to try farming at their homes.”
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