Mysuru goes green on World Environment Day

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Union Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, Mysuru MP at the tree planting initiative, as part of World Environment Day celebrations at Karanji Lake in Mysuru on Friday. | Photo Credit: M. A. Sriram

World Environment Day was observed across Mysuru on Friday through a series of tree-planting drives, environmental awareness campaigns and initiatives aimed at protecting the city’s green cover.

A tree-planting programme was organised at Karanji Lake by the BJP’s Mysuru City unit. Union Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, who was in the city, inaugurated the drive by planting a sapling.

The event highlighted the importance of environmental conservation as a collective responsibility requiring active public participation. The organisers planted 100 saplings to mark the occasion.

Mysuru-Kodagu MP Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, MLA T.S. Srivatsa and other party leaders participated in the programme. Slogans such as “One tree, one life,” “A green environment is our future,” and “Plant a tree, join hands for a green future” underscored the importance of ecological conservation. Similar tree-planting drives were also conducted at several locations across the city.

Members of Parisarakkagi Naavu, and other organisations, as part of World Environment Day event in Mysuru on Friday, symbolically removed concrete and interlocking tiles around roadside trees. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

In a unique initiative, environmental organisation Parisarakkagi Naavu, in association with RLHP and Youth for Sustainability, organised a campaign on the occasion of World Environment Day highlighting the need to protect urban trees. Hundreds of environmental activists, students and citizens gathered in front of SJCE College and symbolically removed concrete and interlocking tiles around 24 roadside trees on the road stretch, to draw the attention of the MCC and the Forest Department.

The organisation, in a release, pointed out that