🌳 50+ NATIVE TREE SAPLINGS PLANTED! 🌳 Thanks to our volunteers and locals. We've planted 50+ native tree saplings such as peepal, bargad, goolar, arjun, marodphali, neem, pilkhan and jamun. 🌳 This season we'll plant a wide variety of saplings to aid biodiversity. It'll not only help in reducing air pollution effectively but will also help in improving our ecology. 🌳🌳🌳

LET'S PLANT MORE TREES! Even as Delhi protests against the felling of 16,500+ trees in south Delhi, a couple of our volunteers have kicked off our plantation as we stare at the monsoon in coming few days. As usual, we are going to plant ONLY NATIVE INDIAN TREES such as peepal, neem, amaltas, banyan etc. and not ORNAMENTAL PALMS used by GOVERNMENT AGENCIES in their FAKE COMPENSATORY AFFORESTATION! We will start scheduling proper plantation drives on this with coming weekend. We will keep you posted with further details.

80+ SAPLINGS PLANTED! Today's updates: 1. The contractor finally began the desilting of lake but a couple of unfortunate incidents happened. A DJB pipeline broke and the water leaked into the lake, raising the water level. Things became difficult for the contractor as their machine partially submerged in water. 2. We are trying to get the DJP pipeline fixed at the earliest. We've also deployed a motor to pump out water. This water is being used to irrigate the surrounding garden. We had a buy-in of the DDA's horticulture department in this. 3. We also have the support of Mrs. Veena Virmani ji, Chairperson or North DMC, who is helping us by pushing this through with the government officials. 4. Apart from this, we also planted about 80+ bougainvillea saplings around the lake. These saplings will grow into a beautiful bush and will help in biodiversity of this area. It'll help attract butterflies and birds. We used lake water to irrig...

Firstly, we are glad to share that DDA has recently formalised the contract for desilting of this lake. The contractor has begun the work. Now that the lake has dried up at an optimal level to begin work the contractor will utilize the machine to clear the lake of all the silt and rubbish. Following picture shows the state of the lake as on 10-Jun-18: Our team will also supplement their efforts by actually getting inside the lake and clearing the waste. As you may have observed in the above pictures, a lot of this waste comprises of clay utensils thrown into the lake by some people during Chath Pooja. Our team is going to clear this waste along with any plastic or glass bottles. Further, while we don't believe in forbidding anyone to practice their religious beliefs, we urge everyone to consider the environment while performing any actions. We are also planning to isolate one area of the lake that can be utilised to perform such religious activities. We...

The amount of garbage we collected! Well, it's the ususal story wherever we go. And this is what we do! As a part of our whole effort towards reviving the lake, we are also looking at other important aspects - the surrounding ecosystem. It is important to have a clean environment. Our volunteers engaged in clearing litter from the surrounding garden not only to ensure it is clean but also to create awareness by action that it is our responsibility as citizens to keep our city clean.