Shout out to Indian cities! Look what Bengaluru is doing to fight pollution

If you find saplings on the pillars in Bengaluru, don’t be surprised as the residents of the startup hub have found a way to fight pollution in the city.

A NGO, ‘Say Trees’, along with residents of Bengaluru want their city to be known as ‘garden city’ yet again and are making vertical gardens.
In the first move, people planted as many as 3500 saplings on the pillars of Hosur Road flyover, which became Bengaluru's first vertical garden.

Over 3,500 saplings of 10 different species have already been planted in the organic garden. Also, an automated drip irrigation system will water these saplings every day and the volunteers of Say Trees will maintain the vertical garden.

The garden on each side of the pillar is designed to increase its aesthetic value. SayTrees says it aims to cover all pillars of the over 9-kilometre flyover with similar vertical gardens and hopes

SayTrees explains they are a motley group of individuals - "software engineers at work and passionate tree lovers at heart."