We the Green Warriors club organized ‘Lake Clean-Up and Plantation Drive’
program on 5 th October 2019.The main objective was to plant as many
trees as possible around Jakkur lake area. We reached the even
location at around 8:00am and winded up the program within 12:30
pm.
The day started early in the morning. Jakkur Lake turned out to be a beautiful
place, the lake had a pretty long stretch, nice greenery was on the lands
surrounding it, plus the best part was that it had birds swimming on it. The sight
of this restored lake was a joy, in a time when we feel sad about the fact that
most lakes of Bengaluru city have gone dry or got polluted so much so that no
ecosystem can exist around it, meaning no more birds, plants and no clean lake
to compliment the surroundings.
We were soon told that residents of the area have adopted the lake from BDA,
and are maintaining it with care. The residents are encouraging others to join
them in planting trees and that day 50 saplings were kept for the volunteers to
plant. We were briefed on how to plant saplings and later we were given a demo
on planting saplings. We were advised to plant saplings properly, without hurry
so that there would be no need for re-work to be done on the saplings we plant.
The procedure involved a few steps – cutting the plastic bag on which the
sapling was planted carefully, and then holding together the soil of the sapling
down so that the clay does not break and fall apart. Then placing the sapling on
the pit, knotting the sapling loosely to the support stick with the plastic thread in
an 8 shape.
After this soil bed should be made leveling the pit to ground level with sand and
sprinkling 2 handfuls of mature. Then make the soil bed firm by stamping on
the soil to hold the plant firmly. In many places the soil was hard and rocky
since it was dry, so it was hard breaking the ground for soil to put in to fill the
sapling pit, however we did it with enthusiasm. Then we walked around the
stretch of lake searching for pits for planting more saplings and planted saplings
till the end point. There were no saplings left at the end, all the saplings were
planted at the end.