SPPU College students in Pune plants over seven thousand Neem saplings
Pune : As of July 5, 7,395 saplings have been planted by student volunteers of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) along the route taken by the yearly wari (pilgrimage).
The warkari who walk the wari, accompany the palkhis of Sant Tukaram and Sant Dynaneshwar to Pandharpur.
A total of 5,000 saplings will be planted over the week in Indapur by Indapur college.
On June 23, SPPU attempted to set a Guinness world record for distributing the largest number of saplings of a single species of plant.
A total of 16,731 saplings of Neem were distributed to National Social Service (NSS) volunteers in the SPPU campus, in the presence of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and vice-chancellor Nitin Karmalkar.
It was a part of socially relevant project ‘Nirmal (Clean), Harit (Green) and Swastha (Healthy) wari’, as part of the annual pilgrimage to Pandharpur, famously known as ‘Ashadhi Wari’. It aims to adapt the concept of afforestation. Droght, delayed monsoon, scarcity of clean drinking water being the major issues, this move is really relevant and praiseworthy.
