Vivekh plants saplings at government hospital

Actor

Vivekh

today took part in a plantation drive at government hospital ,

Omandurar

. The actor planted

saplings

along with Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan, Corporation Commissioner G Prakash, nodal officer Ananda Kumar and NGO, Thuvakkam. The actor planted saplings using the Miyawaki method. Miyawaki is an afforestation technique pioneered by Japanese botanist

Akira Miyawaki

, that helps build dense, native forests.

The actor shared the picture of the drive and captioned it, "nside Govt Omanthurar multi Splity Hospital a myawakki (அடர்வனம்) was initiated in the presence of Health SecyRadhakrishnsn IAS, corpn commr Mr. Prakash IAS, and Dr.Anandkumar nodal officer, n thuvakkam ngo. @Vijayabaskarofl @RAKRI1 @AnandNodal @chennaicorp."

Vivekh is the founder of

Green Kalam

, an initiative involved in planting saplings. The current Miyawaki forest at the hospital will come up in a forest area of 10,000 sq ft. Around 2,000 saplings belonging to 25 species will be planted