The ‘Harithapoorna’ initiative aims at creating urban green spaces

‘Harithapoorna,’ a green initiative launched by Align Minds, an IT consulting company in Tripunithura, aims to create islands of green in the city.

It has already planted 100 saplings at the Thanneerchal Park in Irumpanam and a couple of schools in and around Tripunithura. As part of the first leg of the campaign, Harithapoorna plans to plant 1,000 trees in different parts of the city.

“We had tied up with the Tripunithura Municipality for the first leg of the campaign and it is the Department of Social Forestry that has provided the saplings,” says Devanarayanan G Nair, founder of Align Minds.

The team has identified a number of schools, which will play an active role in nurturing the saplings planted on their campus. “It is also a way of making the children aware of the need to plant more trees,” Devanarayanan says.

Most of the trees planted are fruit-bearing, indigenous trees such as mango and jackfruit for instance.

Each sapling planted will have a designated guardian at the company, who will take care of its upkeep.

The company is also launching an app called ‘Harithapoorna’, which will have the details of each of the sapling planted such as, when and where it was planted and the rest of the co-ordinates. The public can download the app too to participate in the tree planting intiatives.