Tree Plantation and Green Belts in Chandigarh

The tricity's manufacturing base runs from the Chandigarh and Mohali industrial areas through Derabassi's mostly medium-scale units, including textile and spinning mills, out to Baddi, roughly 65 kilometres away in the Shivalik foothills, which has grown into one of the country's largest pharmaceutical and FMCG manufacturing hubs with thousands of factories on its industrial estates. Each of these estates sits in a different terrain, from the flat sector-grid land around Mohali to the hill-edge sites near Baddi, and the green belt design changes with it.

A belt planted on flat industrial land near Derabassi or Rajpura can use a denser, uniform row of native trees, while a site on the sloped ground near Baddi needs species and spacing chosen to hold the soil on a grade, not just to screen the boundary.

Keeping the belt alive through two extremes

A newly planted green belt is at its most vulnerable in its first summer, when temperatures in this region can cross 45°C, and again in its first frost weeks in December and January if the species chosen are not cold-hardy. We maintain the belt through both, since a board inspection that finds a dead or thin row defeats the purpose of having planted it at all.

Documentation for a board inspection

A pollution control board inspection checks the green belt against what the consent to operate specified, and a plantation that looked fine at planting but was never followed up on can fail that check years later if trees have died or been replaced with gaps. We keep a planting record with species, count and location for each belt we maintain, and update it after replacements, so a client has a document ready if an inspection asks for one.

Rajpura, another industrial node named in the tricity's industrial areas, has its own mix of manufacturing units, and a green belt there is planned against the same board conditions as a unit in Mohali or Derabassi, adjusted only for the specific site's boundary length and soil.