Watering and Maintenance of Rani Bagh Saplings

GoT SEASON!

It’s the season of GoT - Guardian of Trees for We Mean To Clean (WMTC) and the episodes are generally lengthier. All trees must survive is the most significant parlay amongst the volunteers. The plot revolves around Amaltas, Sheesham, Alstonia and Marodfali, the indigenous saplings we planted at the road median in Rani Bagh. This median has witnessed one of the most successful plantations by WMTC.

Being guardian of trees, either we let the saplings live or help them survive. But, we chose the latter. All our volunteers have many faces to their personalities. Some are either working professionals and others are students. But on weekends all show their environmentally-conscious sides. This time as well, there were 10 volunteers for the watering of saplings and now-turned trees and we were able to wrap up within an hour. They carve out time to derive soul satisfaction with these drives and activities. Our group of volunteers always keep waste management in mind. They utilize used bottles and plastic cans for watering of saplings. To let out a fact, these containers have never been replaced but reused. The cans and bottles were filled from the petrol pump on this stretch. The petrol pump attendants have always been kind enough to help us by providing us with all the water we need for our saplings.

This is the longest stretch and has welcomed a couple of monsoon seasons as well. As a result, some of the saplings have grown even taller than some of us! Some of the saplings have now-turned trees and have started to bear flowers. As we say, all we need is just a start, rest things will follow up.

Beginning is always the time-consuming part of any task, which also sets the tonality and storyline for every project. Our volunteers have literally picked up the litter from around the trees and provided a clean and fresh environment for the saplings to grow. Ardent nature lovers from WMTC have also watered the saplings during weekdays and kept the show running in the background. Raising up saplings to humble and self-sustaining trees imbibes us with a soul satisfaction.

It’s the preparation that matters and WMTC has well been preparing for many more summers and winters to come. We urge everyone to join us in our drives. It won’t cost a thing but a thought of feeling towards Mother Earth – our environment on which our very survival depends!

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