44 AR plants flower saplings along Rani Gaidinliu road
Source: The Sangai Express / PIB
Imphal, July 10 2021:
44 Assam Rifles under the aegis of 22 Sector/IGAR (East) have planted approximately 5000 Hibiscus and Bougainvillea saplings along the Khongsang-Tamenglong road.
This seven kms stretch has been named as Rani Gaidinliu Vatika, in honour of the great daughter of the soil.
She was a great freedom fighter hailing from Nungkao village in Tamenglong dedicated her complete life for the social upliftment of its people.
A Padma Bhushan awardee, she gave her people a sense of identity and left a legacy, a memory that the region had produced of one of the courageous women freedom fighters.
In the series of plantation drives being organised by the Battalion, troops from town and Akhui planted saplings of Hibiscus and colourful Bougainvillea along the under construction highway from Km 05 to Akhui.
These saplings would start blooming by next monsoon season giving this road another address.
These saplings along the road would supplement the greenery and would also negate the ill effects of deforestation which is part of the infrastructure development process in the region.
This will also reduce the soil erosion along the road and will enhance the life of this newly constructed highway.
44 Assam Rifles, with their sustained efforts, have made a marked improvement in increasing the flora and fauna base of the region in general and of Tamenglong in particular.
The unit is taking concentrated efforts to beautify the ambitious road project connecting Tamenglong town to NH 37 at Khongsang.
As the road construction is steadily progressing ahead, the GREEN WARRIORS of the unit are also progressing to make it a tourist destination to come and stay at Tamenglong.