I urge the forest department officials to plant saplings of native trees along Outer Ring Road. Mysuru: Her contribution to preserving the ecological balance of urban and rural spaces cannot be described in words, and perhaps officials in the forest department knowingly decided that the best way to pay honour the crusader for the environment, Saalumarada Thimmakka was to plant more trees. Mysuru district in-charge minister GT Devegowda on Sunday inaugurated a park developed on the premises of Lingambudhi Lake in Srirampura, which has been named after Saalumarada Thimmakka.Spread across 87.54 hectares, the park was developed at a cost of Rs 1.74 crore by the forest department, of which the central government provided Rs 1.39 crore, and the remaining was funded by the state government. The park, for which the government has allocated Rs 61 lakh, will be developed along the lines of Saalumarada Thimmakka Park Meanwhile, Devegowda said that he had ordered planting of as many as 4,500 saplings at Dadadakallahalli near the KRS backwaters when he served as the president of Mysuru zilla panchayat. “Now, the place has been designated a social forest.
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