Mangaluru
The students and teachers of Government Higher Primary School situated at Bokkapatna are leading by example with greenery around their campus, growing various types of vegetables and nurturing plants.
Vegetables and fruits are grown in the surroundings of the school. The greenery is now extended to the terrace garden where they have grown Mangaluru spinach. The teachers have bought discarded boxes from scrap shops and nurtured various types of vegetables.
The young children are showing a lot of interest towards nurturing the plants by coming early to the school and adding manure to the plants on their own. Certain portions of the garden given to a group of students are being handled by themselves.
Even the teachers, headed by its headmistress Dresil Lilly Menezes, teachers R Kalpana, Stella Moras, Asha, Usha, Madhavi and SDMC president Geetha have joined hands in growing vegetables in the school yard. . The vegetables are used for the afternoon lunch for the students of the school. The vegetables are sometimes auctioned and the income earned is used to buy fertilizers required for the plants.
Dresil Lilly Menezes says, we started the terrace garden two years ago with the support of president of Lions Club Kankanady Padil, Veni Maroli and Karunakar MHK. Even Madhav Ullal has helped for a year by providing a workshop on growing vegetables and giving out information on the manure to be used for the growth of vegetables. President of Academic Committee Mohan Shetty, Mohan Kulal, Dinesh, Prakash and elected representatives Jagadish Shetty also deserve credit. The contribution made by Asha Nagaraj, Netravathi of Lions Club and Smart City needs to be appreciated. Santhosh, owner of Green Door has distributed manure and mud to nurture the vegetables, she said.
