Outreach with Schools in Delhi: We are in the process of contacting schools to facilitate interactions with students on trees and greens. The idea is to use slide presentation and try to make the students aware of the importance of greens, and what is the current status of green in the city. Through these sessions Kalpavriksh also hopes to discuss with students, on how can make they make their school neighborhood greener. The overall motive of presentation is to make the young minds more aware and accountable to environment. The school outreach also intends using street plays in partnership with other groups in Delhi. The recurring theme would be urban trees.
 
Outreach with Residential Welfare Association (RWA) Activity: We have identified some neighborhood RWAs for this; in order to involve common citizens in the urban greens issues as it is something that affects everyone. The role of RWAs can be crucial to target indiscriminate tiling of pavements, issue of parks and so on.
 
Urban Ministry Guide lines as a measures for protecting Urban Greens):
 

      Some Salient Points include: 

• To avoid use of excessive tiling of pavements: porous materials to be used
• Tiling only to be done on pavements with heavy pedestrian traffic
• Growth of grass to be encouraged
• Excessive pruning to be avoided:
• Compost to be made of leaves:
• Adequate space to be left around trees:
• Digging near trees to be avoided:
• Use of organic compound:
• Planting of second line tress to be encouraged:
• Initiation of EEC activities :
• Compactness of the soil near trees to be avoided:
• Setting up of a Central Resource Centre
• Proper care of water fronts:
• Greening of void areas not required for minimum construction:
• Encouragement for water harvesting technologies:
• Public participation to be ensured

  

Out Comes:
 

• Metro has responded positively. Metro authority has accepted our demand to change alignment of metro track where it passes through southern part of Delhi ridge.
• Metro has agreed not to commercialize three stations in the vicinity of the ridge area.
• Metro has agreed to put 5% of the budget of this line to improvement of the ridge in situ.
• Metro has agreed to put up an interpretative exhibit at the station highlighting the benefits of the Ridge to the citizens of Delhi. 
• After Meeting  with The CM she insure to us revive monthly green meeting with government officials and asked for suggestion to amendment in existing Delhi Tree Preservation Act-1994. She given direction to environment sectary to include NGOs in Tree Authority and asked us to give name of five NGOs.