Chandigarh: Nature park-cum-monument to come up in Abohar

Besides, a water body and statue of legendary tree lover Amrita Devi, who laid down her life along with her three daughters way back in 1730 to save green trees being cut by the Maharaja of Jodhpur at a place known as Khejarli in Marwar, Rajasthan, where all the 363 persons were killed for the sake of protecting trees from being axed.

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Chief Architect Sapna apprised the CM that one inch represented each martyr thus the total height 363 inches of flame depicted the sacrifice of 363 martyrs who were brutally killed by the then emperor for their protest against the felling of trees.

She also told the Chief Minister that the brief history of this entire episode along with the details of the martyrs would be written on the walls of main entrance leading to the nature park-cum-monument.

Badal desired that this prestigious project must be completed within six months.

Earlier, the Bishnoi delegation honoured the CM with a title of ‘friend of trees (Varaksh Mittar) with siropas, a memento and a painting of Amrita Devi for taking keeninterest for the construction of park-cum-monument to eulogize the supreme sacrifice of the Bishnoi community as a protector of trees and wildlife.

Expressing deep reverence and gratitude to Badal, the Bishnoi community highly lauded the Chief Minister’s endeavour to inculcate a spirit to keep our environment clean, green and pollution free.

The delegation said that their entire community would be ever indebted to Badal for this benevolent gesture for making concerted efforts to transform their long cherished dream into a reality.

Responding to their another demand, the Chief Minister asked the Financial Commissioner Forests & Wildlife to include requisite representatives from the Bishnoi community on the State Board for Wildlife as non-official members.