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Nurturing love for the green among kids
Kalyam, a small sleepy village in D. Hirehal mandal, Anantapur district, is home for 380 households. The village has a spacious school building and well-equipped infrastructure. The school management offered its vast stretch of land for developing a nursery when the District Water Management Agency (DWMA) was looking for a suitable site for this purpose.
Hirehal (Anantapur): Kalyam, a small sleepy village in D. Hirehal mandal, Anantapur district, is home for 380 households. The village has a spacious school building and well-equipped infrastructure. The school management offered its vast stretch of land for developing a nursery when the District Water Management Agency (DWMA) was looking for a suitable site for this purpose.
Highlights:
- Nursery set up in the school vacant land
- Students involved in the plantation, maintenance and protection of the trees
- About 12,000 seedlings are supplied to the farmers of the nearby villages from the nursery
The headmaster of the school, Sangappa, not only gave vacant land for setting up a nursery in the school but also involved the students in the plantation and maintenance and protection of the trees. The school has now emerged as a focal point for green movement. Headmaster Sangappa says that the presence of the nursery in the school campus changed the very attitude of the students and most of them developed a love for greenery and plants.
This village is one among the major villages having an upper primary school with students’ strength of 226 from 1st to 7th classes. The students of the school work in groups to plant the trees and water them every day, and protect them. “We enjoy watering the plants, and observe them growing day-by-day,” say the students, expressing their happiness about their involvement in these greening activities.
The nursery, taken up under social forestry, and supported by MGNREGS funds, has a total of around 30,000 plants. About 10 types of plants are raised in the nursery. They include Neem, Seetaphal (Custard Apple), Usiri (Gooseberry/Amla), Sunkesula, Jama (Guava), Neredu (Jamoon), Chita (Tamarind), Teak wood etc. About 12,000 seedlings are supplied to the farmers of the nearby villages.
Seedlings to nearby five to six schools are also supplied from this nursery. Around 15,000 seedlings are kept for avenue plantation. “Raising this nursery in our school compound is the most heartening activity” says the headmaster. The nursery has a bore-well which is also catering to school’s needs.
