The Dalmia Bharat Limited (DBL) planted 1,500 saplings in the areas around its Rajgangpur cement facility and colony to beautify its surroundings and make it clean and green.
As part of these initiatives, the region’s cement leader adopted a three decade old, 3.8 acre, garbage dumping yard in Rajgangpur and renamed it as Kishkindha Van, which was inaugurated by Senior ED and National Manufacturing Head DBL Ganesh WJikuntwar.
Featuring organic vegetables and fruits such as mango, guava, citrus, banana, as well as herbs with medicinal properties, the yard also includes a 30-foot well that will be used to irrigate organic vegetable/fruit plantations. Fruits saplings would be planted on one acre land, another 0.8 acres would be used for road, pathway, ridge and pond and organic vegetable cultivation will be done on the remaining two acres. In all, 500 saplings would be planted over an area of 3.8 acres in the Kishkindha Van.
To create awareness on the importance of Van Mahotsav, the CSR and R and R team of the company organised various programmes at schools and colleges and distributed saplings to continue the noble initiative for a greener society. In addition, the DBL provided saplings like lemon, litchi, cashew and coconut etc to Choukidarpara village of Katang.
The students and teachers from two schools and NCC scouts – guides, Red Cross and NSS units from SD Women’s College, Rajgangpur also participated along with local residents and community people in large numbers during the week-long plantation drive.