About Us
This 20-22 Acre piece of land on the Yamuna floodplains, adjoining the Commonwealth Games Village, was earmarked as an urban green space to be developed by the DDA. Mr V P Rao formed a society with eight members (the minimum required to register a society), some from the Village, and others from various parts of Delhi-NCR."THE WOODS" was thus born in February 2019.
This place used to be a dumping site of debris from Construction and Demolition in the adjoining area. After removal of plastic during numerous sanitation drives the area was made fit for plantations. Today, THE WOODS is a forest with over 100 species of trees, plants & shrubs. It plays host to more than 50 species of birds (many of them migratory), 45 species of butterflies, and various types of spiders, beetles, and mantis, which are all indicators of a healthy ecosystem.
The society under the leadership of Shri Pratyush Sinha IAS, Former CVC, Govt Of India organized a number of sanitation and plantation drives. The water leakage leading to the formation of the cesspool of larvae was harvested for watering the saplings.
The WOODS has planted saplings twice at ICD - Sonepat
And plantation was undertaken at ICD - Panipat as well. Thus the NGO THE WOODS has expended it`s wings beyond NCT of Delhi
Three parks of Municipal Corporation of Delhi , situated in Mayur Vihar, have been adopted for plantation and maintenance.
The Woods
The following prominent members adore THE WOODS:
- Padam Bhushan Sh Rajiv Mehrishi IAS former CAG GoI
- Sh Pratyush Sinha IAS former CVC
- Sh P K Sinha IAS former Cabinet Secretary GoI
- Sh R V Shahi IAS former Secy GoI
- Sh Virender Gupta IFS former Ambassador
- Sh Vijay Chhibber IAS former Secy GoI
- Sh Amitabh Mathur IPS, former Spl Secy GoI
- A S Chauhan IAAS former Addl Secretary GoI
- Dhiraj Mathur IAS
- R C M Reddy IAS
- V P Rao IAS
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