Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji (SR)

Panaji, Jul 8: Goa Institute of Management (GIM) planted 300 saplings in Sakhali on Saturday as part of Vanmahotsava festivities. The drive took place to make successful plantation of local fruit-bearing and flower-bearing trees.

GIM had a spare patch of around half a hectare where due to hard soil strata, no plants grew. However, a forest official told TOI that the Goa forest department in collaboration with Goa Tanmar Power Transmission Project Ltd, broke this hard soil using excavators and dug deep pits for plantation.

Union minister for AYUSH, Shripad Naik also participated in the plantation drive by planting a Rudraksh sapling. Sharing his views on the importance of tree plantation and environment conservation, he urged the students of GIM to plant one tree each and take care of it until they were in the campus and witness a life flourishing for themselves.

GIM director, Ajit Parulekar explained that the campus had undertaken various environmental friendly steps including rain water harvesting and solar initiatives to save energy in its buildings and hostels. During the plantation drive, wide variety of saplings such as imli, peru, neem, jam, jackfruit, mango, jamun and amla were planted inside the campus.