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Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: To add to the green cover of the Capital before the start of the Commonwealth Games 2010, Northern Railway has begun a massive plantation drive along its tracks in the city. Besides planting saplings of bio-diesel plant -- jatropha -- for future use, it is also developing a dense green cover around the proposed Commonwealth Games Village behind Akshardham Temple in East Delhi to reduce noise pollution in the area. The massive plantation drive with the target of planting 13-lakh saplings has already seen around six-lakh saplings being planted in the past one year, while the remaining seven-lakh saplings will be planted in another year's time. Of the saplings being planted, 90 per cent are of jatropha from whose seeds bio-diesel is produced. "Jatropha is very precious plant for us as it produces bio-diesel that can be mixed with bio-fuels, trials on which are at an advanced stage. The plant grows very fast, does not need any care and starts producing seeds within a few years. So by 2010, it will not only provide thick green cover to the city but also produce enough seeds to help us in bio-diesel production.
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