Van Mahotsav Webinar was organised by RJS PBH in association with Mamta Sagar Foundation..RJSians Pays lots of respect to Guru Purnima and Source of inspiration of Van Mahotsav K M Munshi

Van Mahotsav Webinar was organised by RJS PBH in association with Mamta Sagar Foundation.

RJSians Pays lots of respect to Guru Purnima  and Source of inspiration of Van Mahotsav K M Munshi  

New Delhi. Van-Mahotsava, being currently celebrated for a week, but which seeks to not only plant as many saplings of different species of life-giving trees  as possible during the rainy season, but also to resolve at all times to care for Mother Nature at all times. After the webinar was initiated by RJS PBH HEAD  Shri Uday Manna, the co-organiser, Ms Pratibha Dixit, President Mamta Sagar Foundation,who was  hosting the programme, welcomed the guest environmentalists, and after reciting a poem narrating the obvious blessings from trees to all life, invited  the chief guest, Shri Bakul Gogoi, and the keynote speaker, Shri R.K. Bishnoi for their views and experiences. 

The guests imparted useful knowledge on how  to plant and care for saplings of trees till they grow up to stand on their own. Other participants in the programme were Prafull Bhai Seth, Ranjana Ben, Ashok Kumar Malik (on Youtube live), Advocate Sudeep Sahu, Mohd.Ishahaq Khan , Omprakash Jhunjhunwala,Suman Kumari, Dhan Kushwaha, Sonu Mishra and others.

 The participants were shown the plants growing in the balcony of the house of  Prafull D.Seth'  where even parakeets descend. Shri R.K. Bishnoi has many plants on the terrace of his flat where he also makes manure from leaves collected from nearby park and leftovers from kitchen in drums. He says that even in cities, people have no excuse not to plant saplings in their balconies or terraces using all kinds of containers (he, however, is not in favour of using earthen pots,but rather recyclable plastic which are made from leftovers after petroleum fuels have been produced, and are light on the terrace) and using a mix of sand and clay as well as leaf mould,  after getting the terraces, if need be, waterproof. Vegetables like tomatoes, gourd, chillies can be grown advantageously. The plants are ideal for being

 gifted to others on birthdays etc. The appropriate plants for the middle strip of roads are neem and kaner or red or yellow oleander which are left untouched by browsing cattle. This is the season for planting seeds of neem (called _nimboli_ ) and mango seed (called _gutli_ ) He even suggested planting Peepul on mid-strip but this was not considered safe by the tree man, Shri Bokul Gogoi who showed beairiful images and video of the enormous work he has been doing for the last three decades, during which he has planted and inspired others to plant enormous numbers of various kinds of trees like his namesake Bakul tree or maulsari or, botanically _Mimusops elengi_which has tiny, fragrant flowers. He has planted long avenue of maulsari, and has conserved wetlands, where thousands of herons and other birds congregate. The work done by the tree man is definitely stupendous. It need hardly be mentioned that trees with their canopy not only provide shade, but provide shelter and sustenance to birds  which build their nests in forks of their boughs and branches amidst green foliage. 

I may add that trees with the green luxuriance of their leaves have one of the most wonderful industry in the world, when using the electromagnetic energy of streaming rays of of the Sun, Carbon from Carbon-dioxide absorbed by the leaves, and water with dissolved minerals drawn up from their systems of extensive roots beneath the ground, trees make all kinds of foods, using the function of their cloroplasts having green pigment chlorophil. Oxygen is a by-product so essential for survival of most of life on Earth. 

Uday Manna

National Convener

RJS PBH 8368626368.

Ashok Kumar Malik, Poet & RJS Spokesperson