Chennai News: The Greater Corporation Commissioner G Prakash inaugurated the Miyawaki forest opposite the Secretariat. Miyawaki forest (Representational Image) | Photo Credit: IANS
Chennai: The Greater Chennai Corporation has developed a new Miyawaki forest with an area of around 3,000 square feet, near Secretariat. The forest is planned by the Inner Wheel Club of Madras in the city.
According to the
Indian Express report, the GCC has allowed the public to visit these forests to get a glimpse of corporations initiative. Inner Wheel Club started this project in September last year. The barren land now cultivates 837 trees.
On February 01, Chennai civic body Commissioner G Prakash said: they were planning to set up 1,000 more urban forests by utilising open spaces and reserve lands in a bid to spread the green cover of the city .