Project BOLD: KVIC

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Recently, the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) launched a project named Bamboo Oasis on Lands in Drought (BOLD) from the village NichlaMandwa in Udaipur, Rajasthan

About:

• Under the project 5000 saplings of special bamboo species –BambusaTulda and BambusaPolymorpha from Assam – have been planted over 16 acres of vacant arid Gram Panchayat land of village NichlaMandwa.
  • KVIC has thus created a world record of planting the highest number of bamboo saplings on a single day at one location.
• It is the first of its kind exercise in India. It seeks to create bamboo-based green patches in arid and semi-arid land zones.
• It has been launched as part of KVIC’s “Khadi Bamboo Festival” to celebrate 75 years of independence “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav”.