In an effort to conserve urban biodiversity and create awareness about local plants, schools in the city are creating their own vertical gardens despite space constraints. The initiative by the schools is an effort of Brihati Foundation that has approached several both government and private schools. They are training students for creating vertical gardens. Ashok Rawat, principal of the Rakhial Hindi School No 1 said that they have created a small vertical garden of 30 pots. "It is small in number but each of the 30 pots had been assigned to each of the 30 students of class 8 who took part in the project.

Source: dna March 26, 2019 01:18 UTC