Raghvir Happy , Barnala, Jan 27:2021
Turning a barren piece of 3 acres land on Moga bypass into an environmental park, under stewardship of Deputy Commissioner Barnala Tej Partap Singh Phoolka, the district administration Barnala has set an example for others to emulate.
Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Labor Punjab Mr Balbir Singh Sidhu dedicated this park to the people of Barnala during Republic Day celebrations. Deputy Commissioner Phoolka said that the area has been divided into four sections as per the nature of plants. These include plants with big canopies, fruit plants, flowering plants and medicinal plants. Each section has 125 to 150 plants. These include dek, suhanjana, harad, kachnar, bahera, harsingar, khajoor, triveni etc. Besides this around 600 to 700 ornamental plants have been planted to give visitors a unique experience.
Medicinal plants have been fetched from Patiala nursery, while rest saplings have been provided from the nursery of the forest department. Levelling the land and removing big and small stones from the soil was a challenge for the forest department employees working on the site. For the past four months the team has been working on project under Deputy Commissioner Phoolka.
The park will bloom to its fullest in the next six months.
