Garden Tourism Festival kicks off

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 16

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today urged people to plant trees to combat pollution and make Delhi a clean and green city.

At the launch of the 31st Garden Tourism Festival at the Garden of Five Senses today, Sisodia said the practice of gardening and planting trees plays a pivotal role in bettering the human-nature relationship. He appealed to Residents Welfare Associations to attend the three-day festival.

“Everybody is concerned about fighting pollution and cleaning the air. It can only be ensured by planting trees and growing gardens,” Sisodia said and planted a tree in the garden on the occasion.

There is a need for organising more garden festivals at a larger scale to set examples for developing a sustainable urbanised city, stressed the Deputy CM who also released a beautiful souvenir with details of the festival of the seasonal flowers at the event.

The three-day extravaganza is themed “Grow Garden: Save Delhi” this year. The idea is to promote gardening and apprise people of its health and environment benefits. With the help from professionals at the festival, one can learn how to transform small spaces into beautiful gardens, said an organiser.

With an objective to create awareness about the environment and making Delhi a “Clean and Green City”, tourism in association with the government has been organising the festival in the city for past three decades.