New Delhi, April 15 -- Just weeks after the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) set up a bamboo park and planted thousands of saplings on the five-acre reclaimed site near the Bhalswa landfill, most of these saplings have dried up with the rising temperature in the city. The bamboo saplings were planted with a goal to turn the erstwhile garbage dumpsite area into a lush garden.

During a spot-check by HT, it was found that the stems and leaves of majority of saplings have dried up. On Monday, two workers from horticulture department were deployed to keep watering the plants which have signs of life left. "We are regularly watering the plants but the condition is very challenging. We are hoping that the roots of the surviving plants will ...