To the villagers, who enjoy vistas of open land, this green patch may not mean much, but for Delhiites this would have offered much-needed fresh air. Unfortunately, the city does not seem to have land left for large-scale plantations.
Mini forests have come up in Rewla Khanpur and other villages like Kharkhari and Ujwa in Najafgarh to compensate for the lakhs of trees felled in the city to facilitate infrastructure projects like the Metro, highways and flyovers. About 48,000 trees were cut to make way for the Delhi Metro network.
Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994 says every user agency felling trees for a project will have to fund planting of 10 saplings. "As the forest department doesn't have any land left inside the city, we had to move away. Plots were surveyed and the gram sabhas agreed to give us their land. For now we can grow trees but the gram sabhas can retrieve their land," says a senior forest officer. The villagers don't mind the plantations. Rewla Khanpur, deserted for the most part, is characterized by elders puffing hookahs on charpoys while some farmers work the fields.
Forest officers fear that very soon there will be no land left for such plantations. Between four deputy conservator of forests (DCF), they receive at least a thousand applications for afforestation projects by user agencies. DMRC will divert some forest land for Phase 3, and afforestation will be done by the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) for Delhi. Plantations are also being done in Nangloi and Alipur ranges of the west and northwest districts.
"Plantation in an area like the central ridge is difficult owing to the preponderance of keekar trees, which inhibit the growth of other species. Land in the villages is free from such constraints and is usually fertile," says another forest officer. Najafgarh also has some young plantations, about three years old. Unlike manicured plantations where saplings are planted in rows, these plantations are developed like natural forests.
"The idea is create a forest-like environment so that there is room for fauna. Many birds make nests in the grasslands, also used by reptiles, so we don't prune the foliage," says DCF Prashant Rajgopal. Only hardy saplings can withstand extreme weather and become a part of the forest. Another difficulty is that plantations are found in patches.
Most of DMRC's compensatory plantations are in Najafgarh. Agencies pay Rs 28,000 to the forest department for planting 10 trees. If they manage to do half of the plantation, Rs 14,000 is refunded. "Some of these plantations are excellent, while some are poorly done. There is no space in left in Delhi and
planting 10 saplings for every tree is very ambitious," says Prabhakar Rao of Kalpavriksh.
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