HYDERABAD: Over 35,200 trees would be planted at 80 different spots of the city in connection with a ‘sarsabz Hyderabad’ plan and of them 500 trees would be planted in GOR colony alone.

This was stated at a meeting chaired by Hyderabad Commissioner Abbas Baloch in his office on Monday. The meeting was attended by forests chief conservator Habib Nizamani and officials of the administration, highways and buildings departments.

The meeting also decided to plant saplings on both sides of the road from Agriculture Complex to Allama Shamsul Ulema Daudpota library. It decided to hand over sanitation responsibility of Shahbaz Building to Qasimabad municipal committee and that of GOR to Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (HMC).

The meeting noted that the park in GOR colony would be rehabilitated and a boundary wall would be built around the colony. Gardeners would be appointed for the colony’s park and it would not be opened to public unless it was fully rehabilitated, it decided.

The commissioner directed forest the department, HMC and Qasimabad municipal committee to submit a detailed report about the condition of saplings planted and their pictorial proof along with their numbers. He said the Hyderabad deputy commissioner had been appointed as the focal person for the ‘sarsabz Hyderabad’ programme.

Published in Dawn, September 29th, 2020