I started planting saplings in the back lane of houses where some people dumped kitchen waste or took their pets for nature’s call.
Bathh started teaching poor students for free after he retired in 2013 as a mathematics teacher from Sacred Heart Convent School, Sector 26.
I started planting saplings in the back lane of houses where earlier some people dumped kitchen waste, debris or took their pets for nature’s call.
However, later I grew medicinal plants such as neem, giloy, ashwagandha, tulsi, green tea and lemon grass.
He did not want to grow vegetables for self-consumption, but wanted to help local residents by growing medicinal and fruit plants.
“It absolves air and noise pollution,” said Bathh, who has grown a total of 50-60 plants in the back lane of 10-12 houses.
The senior citizen is continuing all this despite the fact he underwent a hip joint operation in 2013 and a surgery to remove one of his kidneys, which had developed a tumour, in 2019.
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