The red-flagged vilaiti keekar depletes ground water and hinders the growth of vegetation around it, explains retired Air Vice Marshal Vinod Rawat, founder of the volunteer group 'Working With Nature' (WWN) who is leading a campaign to revive the area's varied native vegetation . He says native species that vanished many years ago need to be reintroduced.
Rawat, 75, is trying to create a 600-acre Aravalli city forest and nearly 200 acres of a medicinal plantation in this vast scrubland near Qutab Minar. Pottering around the forest with Rawat in his golf cart is the best way to familiarize yourself with the vegetation. A botany student himself, he has a way of humanizing nature.
The stories spill out, a khejri tree becomes the symbol of a people's struggle. "It's a native Aravalli species. When we started work, there was only one khejri tree in Sanjay Van. But now, 3,000 saplings from Rajasthan have been planted," he says. The Rajasthan connection leads into history. "The khejri tree inspired the first Chipko movement 300 years ago in the Jodhpur region. People held the khejri sacred, and when troops came to fell a grove, a woman, Amrita Devi, clung to a tree as it was hacked. She died, and after her 200 others."
Khejris are not the only native trees reintroduced here. Around one lakh saplings of other species have been planted by DDA under the guidance of Rawat, who took up the task at the instance of lieutenant governor Tejendra Khanna in 2010.
Rawat and other WWN volunteers are trying to raise interest in the forest by walking students through it. With winter on its way out, school trips have increased . On Wednesday morning, when TOI visited the forest, Class VI students from DPS RK Puram were planting a dhak sapling, a tree associated with one of the toughest chapters in school-level history. They were given a note "from the tree" stating: "I have lent my name to the town of Palashi, famous for the historic battle of Plassey." Not a lesson they will forget.
Down a mud track lies the medicinal plantation. Spread across 200 acres, it will have 10,000 trees of species like guggul, neem, jamun, bel, arjun, bahera , harad, amla and a climber , giloe. As the plants take root, wildlife has returned. There are blue bulls, migratory birds and peacocks . Rawat jokes he is wedded to the project. His child is growing up well.
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