Orathupalayam reservoir basin turns greener with 15,000 new saplings
The Vetry Trust has planted 15,000 drought-resistant saplings in the Orathupalayam reservoir basin as part of an ongoing afforestation and environmental remediation project. The initiative aims to restore the ecosystem damaged by industrial pollution and improve water quality for local agriculture.
Why it matters
This project demonstrates how private-public collaboration can effectively address industrial environmental damage and promote sustainable land use.
Taking forward its ‘Vanathukkul Tiruppur Project’, under which 25 lakh trees were raised in over a decade with about 85% survival rate, Vetry Trust, on Saturday (September 12), planted 15,000 saplings of drought-resistant native tree species on an 100-acre expanse cleared of prosopis juliflora in the Orathupalayam reservoir basin across the Noyyal river between Chennimalai and Kangayam.
In the mass afforestation drive that began in 2015 in memory of late President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the Vetri Trust had planted 6,000 saplings in the first phase in 2024 and 4,000 sapling in the subsequent phase during 2025, in collaboration with the Kangayam-based Thuligal Trust, and, through drip-irrigation, saw through the high survival rate.
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