bhopal one of the highly polluted cities of india bhopal has been fighting hard to do away with this questionable tag as a part of this cleansing endeavour citys civic body along with bhopal smart city development corporation limited bscdcl is soon going to install vertical gardens to counter air pollution structures around traffic intersections with high volume of traffic would go green in the first phase of this projectgreen cover along the intersections and other commercial locations where there is increased level of air pollution would be taken up first vertical gardens can absorb heat and reduce impact of air pollution in a particular zone said bmcs additional commissioner pawan singh toxicants in the air including harmful carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide are the offshoots of vehicular pollution with an artificial green cover over buildings bmc aims to install vertical gardens to counter pollution he addeduse of hydroponics is also being considered by the civic body vertical gardens are expensive to install but local varieties of plants and shrubs make the installation last longer with little use of water longterm cost of vertical gardens once installed is less than what bmc spends on maintaining the central verges on city roads said experts yearly maintenance of central verge along vip road costs the bmc over rs 50 lakh whereas a vertical garden installed at bscdcl office costs about rs 15 lakh annuallybscdcl has already come out with a blue and green master plan for the state capital which aims at ecofriendly development of the city besides 342acre core area based development the smart city project will also provide a model for ecofriendly development of the state capitalfor smart city parks and open spaces bscdcl will install solar panels of pole topssolar panels will cost around inr 6000panel supporting an led light of 180w which requires a solar panel of 300w the entire bscdcl area will require 1720 light poles and 1720 solar panels installed at 100m intervalsinverse roof top it is characterized by its variety of vegetation ranging from herbaceous plants to small trees with professional maintenance and advanced green roof irrigation system a typical growing medium depth of an intensive green roof is 6 inches it supports everything from small personalhome gardens to fullscale public parks