As part of its Corporate social responsiblity, Maharatna company BHEl has gifted yet another park to the city. After the beautiful Swarna jayanti park now Gandhi Udyan would become a breather for the denizens located in the heart of the city near Ranipur More area.
BHEl has taken the responsibility of its maintenance and the garden would be a boon for the nature lovers and the morning walkers who can stroll amidst the shade of medicinal trees, once they resume their full form.
Dedicating the park to the public on October 2, the 147th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and 112th birth Anniversary of lal Bahadur Shastri, the Executive Director of BHEl Prakash Chand said, “There could not be better tribute to the Mahatma who got the Mahatma title in the holy city by Swami Shradhanand of Gurukul Kangri university than to give the denizens of the holy city a park in his name at the entrance of the city. His ideals of maintaining cleanliness and banishing illiteracy and intolerance were the need of the hour which BHEl was striving for. We must rededicate ourselves to the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi.”
He also appreciated the volunteers of Haridwar Nagrik Manch Purushottam Sharma Gandhiwadi, Jagdish lal Pahwa and PS Chauhan for giving the concept behind making the park as parks acted as lungs to any city besides adding aesthetic beauty to the ambience.
The convenor of the programme Naresh Mohan that the ideal of cleanliness given by Mahatma Gandhi was seeing a real transformation in the form of Gandhi Udyan which once had become site of garbage dumping ground.
The General Manager of BHEl from Human resource department said that the dream taken a year before had materialised on the Gandhi Jayanti by the efforts of the team members. Other projects like Bio Digestor toilets construction in schools and public spots was another initiative which the company was ensuing as “Giving back” initiative to the society.
First lady of BHEl Jyotsna Aswani along with the general managers and executive director planted the trees in the park premises. A life size statue of Mahatma Gandhi was also installed in a corner of the park much visible to the people
crossing the periphery road from outside.