Coimbatore: City-based environment conservation group Siruthuli in association with Rotary Coimbatore Gaalaxy launched an afforestation project to mark the seventh death anniversary of former president A P J Abdul Kalam on Tuesday. Their plan is to plant 5,000 trees on Anna University regional campus.
Kalam, who died on July 27, 2015, had always dreamt of a green country and did his best to push the idea.
Siruthuli has also launched a social media challenge - Plant4life - to get netizens into the tree planting movement. “We want to bring Kalam’s aspiration of a billion trees for a billion people alive. The benefits of afforestation are numerous. Tree covers act as sponges and even assuage and mitigate floods and rising water levels,” it said in a press statement.