Residents make green pact with GCC

A citizens-driven initiative launched by the Corporation, Pasumai Chennai has drawn a good number of residents’ welfare associations across the city

On August 6, AGS Colony Residents Welfare Association in Velachery will plant 75 tree saplings at AGS Colony to commemorate the 75th year of Indian Independence. AGS Colony Residents Welfare Association is one of many residents’ welfare associations that have expressed an interest in Greater Chennai Corporation’s (GCC) Pasumai Chennai, a citizens-driven initiative that aims to enhance the city’s green cover. The exercise is among the various initiatives being undertaken by GCC to beautify Chennai. In the past week, GCC’s zonal officers were holding meetings with residents’ welfare associations in their zones to persuade them to start a greening exercise in their colonies “Prior to this, the Corporation carried out mass cleaning in various localities; posters were removed from public spaces including flyovers, subways and compound walls of schools; and also from signboards, nameboards, and bus shelters. Further, walls in public spaces are being adorned with artworks. Now, we are approaching residents’ associations to enhance the city’s green cover by raising trees in their respective colonies,” says V Vijayakumari, zonal officer of Zone 7 (Ambattur).