Major efforts being made to green newer areas of Mysore

The extensions spread around Mysore city may turn greener if the proposal of the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) is implemented.

The MUDA has announced a programme to plant 25,000 saplings in a phased manner in about 15 new extensions around the city. It has proposed to plant a large variety of plants in public parks and on roadsides in these extensions. MUDA Commissioner C G Betsur Mutt said about 5,000 saplings will be planted in the first phase to be launched on Independence Day. The programme has been taken up to improve greenery in the new extensions. Useful plant varieties like champak, neem, mahogany, rosea, aulanda, jackfruit, mathhi, beete, honne and blue berry will be planted in all these places.

The Vijayanagar layout, one of the biggest in western Mysore, will see the saplings being planted in the first, second and third phases of 4th stage.

Dattagalli 3rd stage will have 2,600 plants and Ravindranath Nagar 850, Hanchya Sathagalli ‘A’ zone 2,400 and Sathagalli 1st and 2nd Stage 1,600, Devanur 3rd Stage 2,000 and, Sathagalli and Hanchya Sathagalli ‘B’ zone 500, Lal Bahadur Shastri Nagar 1,800, Lalithadri Nagar South 1,750 and Shanthaveri Gopala Gowda Nagar 500, Ambedkar Nagar has been chosen for planting 2,200 saplings in two phases while Vasanthanagar with 800 plants, he said.

The programme of planting 5,000 plants will be launched tomorrow on the southern part of Lalithadri Nagara in association with the Forest Department by District incharge Minister S A Ramadas and MUDA Chairman L Nagendra.