Kolkata: Eastern Railway has taken a pioneering step for providing more green cover towards a 'Swachh' & purified environment at Railway premises by installing vertical wall garden at Sealdah station. This vertical wall garden at Sealdah station will act as a green lung of the station and adjacent areas. This will help in purifying the contaminated air in the heavily crowded area with millions of passengers commuting every day.
The vertical wall garden at Sealdah having the size of 110 ft length and 18 ft from ground level. The wall garden has 5,440 plants arrayed to display a multi-colour unique pattern. The plants in the garden will improve the quality of air in the environment as it has a larger surface area to exchange gases and water with surroundings thereby benefitting us in reducing carbon dioxide level, increasing humidity, reducing level of pollutants, sucking up injurious toxins, reducing airborne dust levels, keeping temperature down, reducing noise from busy areas as their leaves absorb, diffract and reflect background noise, thus reducing mental stress and anxiety.
The vertical garden at Sealdah has been set up with the state-of-the-art technology using drip irrigation for the garden.
Sealdah Division has also planned to get the garden irrigated through rain water harvesting to preserve valuable water resources.