To promote greenery, Seth Jai Parkash Mukand Lal Institute prepares, plants seed balls

Shiv Kumar Sharma

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Tribune News Service

Yamunanagar, July 11

Adopting a unique method of promoting afforestation, an educational institute has started preparing and planting seed balls.

Staff members and students of Seth Jai Parkash Mukand Lal Institute of Engineering and Technology, (JMIT), Radaur, have so far prepared 3,000 seed balls and planted these in different areas, where the natural flora has been destroyed.

“Under the guidance of chairman of JMIT Ashok Kumar and general secretary Dr Ramesh Kumar, we (the staff members and students) have started a new initiative towards environment protection by preparing seed balls. We have decided to prepare 10,000 seed balls this rainy season. We have so far prepared 3,000 seed balls and planted these,” said Dr SK Garg, director of JMIT.

He said physical classes were off and students were not coming to the institute, so, they assembled students at common places in their towns or cities and prepared seed balls.

“Besides the staff members and students, the seed balls are being given to visitors, who visit the institute as a gift,” said Garg. He said they had used various kind of fruits and other conventional or oxygen-generating plant seeds while rolling them into seed balls.

He added that compost, various kinds of seeds, soil and water was used to prepare these seed balls. Dr SK Garg said JMIT was working on the policy of ‘Save blue, donate red and grow green’. Kumar said the JMIT had already installed solar power plants, rainwater harvesters, and sewerage treatment plants.