Biggest ever green campaign coming

Biggest ever green campaign coming
New Indian Express

BANGALORE: Bangaloreans will witness a first-of-its-kind reforestation drive soon. Alt Tech Foundation will organise what it calls the SeedBall Revolution, where it plans to scatter 5 million seedballs before July.

To celebrate the 50,000-seedball benchmark, BCIL-Alt Tech Foundation in partnership with Radio City FM 91 has organised an event at Bal Bhavan, Cubbon Park, on June 10.

The seedballs cost Re 1 and you can collect a seedball kit from the foundation. The kit contains a mixture of clay, vegetable dye and compost. The kit has carefully selected seeds of species that are indigenous to the Bangalore eco-region.

Described as the largest participatory tree-planting drive, it will see involvement of citizens, groups and companies. Corporate bodies like HDFC, schools, orphanages, autorikshaw unions, and Rajkumar fans associations are already a part of the movement.

This seedball programme plans to scatter five million seedballs before the rains in areas that desperately need some green cover in and around Bangalore.

For details check www.millionseedballs.org.