Over 1600 Plants Of Around 50 Plant
Varieties Grown At TAPSO
Hyderabad, 26
January 2022: Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) in
association with Heartfulness Institute inaugurated a mini greenery hub at the
new environment-friendly facility of Telangana & Andhra Pradesh State Office
(TAPSO) at Indian Oil Bhavan, Sanath Nagar, Hyderabad as part of the Republic
Day celebrations. This is one of the many mini-forests Heartfulness Institute
is creating through its environmental outreach program called “Forests By
Heartfulness”. The objective of this effort is to conserve the rare and
endangered Indian native species that can also help in attracting bio-diversity
including bees, butterflies, birds and squirrels. Executive Director of TAPSO,
Shri R Sravan S Rao, and a team from Heartfulness Institute inaugurated the
mini greenery hub at TAPSO on Republic Day.
More than 1600
plants of around 50 varieties of shrubs and trees were densely planted using Heartyculture
High Dense Forest methodology. This results in explosive growth of the trees
within a short frame of time of 12-18 months. All the saplings of these rare
species were sourced from Heartyculture nursery which is located at Kanha
Shanti Vanam – the Heartfulness Headquarters in the outskirts of Hyderabad
which aims at saving and propagating the endangered indigenous plant species of
both medicinal and non-medicinal value through Tissue Culture Technology and
raise more saplings while overcoming the impediments of traditional plant
propagation methods. With a 5,000 sft facility and 10,000 cleanroom technology,
and a capacity to produce 15,00,000 annual saplings by employing finest
equipment and infrastructure, the Heartfulness Tree Conservation Centre
propagates at least five endangered plant varieties at the rate of 1.5-2 lacs
saplings a year.
The idea to grow
a mini greenery hub at the IOCL TAPSO facility occurred with some IOCL senior
executive visits to Kanha Shanti Vanam a while ago. Inspired by the green surroundings
and the conservation activities by Heartfulness Institute, Shri SK Upadhyay,
CGM HR of IOCL took the initiative to create something similar at the TAPSO
facility in Hyderabad. What ensued was a collection of a number of endangered
species saplings ranging from herbs to shrubs to trees and canopies that share
the same natural system and have a symbiotic relationship with one another; and
building a forest variety for environmental benefit.
Some of the endangered species included
in the plantation at TAPSO facility are: Syzygium
travancoricum (critically endangered), Diospyros
malabarica (endemic), Ailanthes triphysa (endemic), Amoora rohitaka (vulnerable), Cinnamomum
malabatrum (endemic),
Saraca asoka (vulnerable), Terminalia arjuna (near threatened), Michaelia
champaca (near threatened), Garcinia indica (endemic and vulnerable),
Canarium strictum (vulnerable), Terminalia chebula (near threatened),
Oroxylum indicum (vulnerable), Cinnamomum tamala, Artocarpus hirsutus (endemic
and vulnerable), Alpinia smithiae (endemic), Adathoda beddomei (endemic),
Cleorodendron indicum (High conservation value as it is the only species in
the Order Lamiales), Commifera guggulu (endangered), Santulum album (vulnerable),
Pterocarpus santalensis (endangered).
Speaking on the
occasion Daaji, Guide of Heartfulness said, “Only recently the western world
came to know that plant signaling or plant communication indeed happens. But
the Vedic era had long thrown light on the subject of plants being living
things. The more the plants we grow, especially when we save an endangered
species, the more we are giving to a life. Trees are revered in India. There
are several plants of medicinal value that are of importance. It is also
needless to say how plants save the ecosystem by bringing about biodiversity,
bringing rains and saving rivers. Beyond all this, there is also the spiritual
significance. Plants make a major chunk of our nature. As producers in the food
chain almost every creature depends on plants directly or indirectly. We must
all work towards alike in safeguarding as many plant species as possible for
the sake our future generations.”
About
Heartfulness: Heartfulness offers a simple set
of meditative practices and lifestyle changes, first developed at the turn of
the twentieth century and formalized into teaching through Shri Ram Chandra
Mission in 1945 in India with a goal to bring peace, happiness and wisdom to
one heart at a time. These practices are a modern form of Yoga designed to
support contentment, inner calm, and stillness, compassion, courage, and
clarity of thought, as the first step towards a purposeful life. They are simple
and easily adopted and are appropriate for people from all walks of life,
cultures, religious beliefs, and economic situations, who are over the age of
fifteen. Ongoing training in Heartfulness practices is going on at thousands of
schools and colleges, and over 100,000 professionals are meditating in
corporations, non-governmental, and government bodies worldwide. More than
5,000 Heartfulness Centers are supported by many thousands of certified
volunteer trainers and millions of practitioners in 160 countries.
About “Forests
By Heartfulness”: Forests by Heartfulness (FBH)
is an ecological movement envisioned to create spaces where humans coexist in
harmony with Nature. The vision is to conserve the native, endemic, threatened
species of the country and enrich India’s mega-biodiversity while sequestering
Carbon permanently from the atmosphere.
Besides
planting the saplings, FBH plans to monitor their growth for three years using
the latest scientific techniques such as geotagging, satellite imagery, and
third-party audits.
The program
began in 2019 with setting up 18 nurseries across the country to raise saplings
and will target to plant 30 million trees by 2025.
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