Published Date: 2009-06-08, Monday
Kathmandu University School of
Engineering (KUSE) and the NGO Love Green Nepal (LGN) jointly organized a
special tree plantation program to mark the World Environment Day (WED) on June
5th 2009, which was observed globally with the slogan - Your planet needs you! Unite to
combat climate change. The tree plantation program was inaugurated jointly by the Vice
Chancellor of Kathmandu University Prof.Dr. Suresh Raj Sharma, Dean of School of Engineering
Prof. Dr. Bhola Thapa and LGN President Ms. Amira Dali. The tree plantation program was participated by KU Officials and
students and LGN members, staff and girl students receiving scholarship from
Nepal Educational Scholarship Fund under LGN. A total of 101 tree seedlings
were planted in the newly constructed Ingehansgon
Building ( Block 8 )of School of Engineering premises. The tree species
planted were: Ginkgo biloba, Cinnamomum
glaucescens, Michelia champaca, Prunus cerasoides; Psidium guajava, Cinnamomum
camphora, Fraxinus floribunda, etc.
The tree plantation program was expected to contribute to developing greenery and maintaining natural environment in the University premises. The tree plantation program was coordinated by Associate Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering Department Dr. Bim Prasad Shrestha and LGN Executive Director Mr. G. K. Sangat.