madurai as schools continue to remain closed across the state and children are left confined at home teachers of a governmentaided primary school in madurai have engaged students in gardening the students have been actively involved in a tree planting drive initiated by the school teachers to increase the green cover in their localitiesstudents of dr t thirugnanam primary school have planted around 30 trees so far as part of the drive dinam oru maram naduthal meaning plant one tree a day in various localities we have 285 students in our school and we are looking to ensure every one of them plant one tree near their residence and also continually nurture it over time teachers pooled in money to get saplings and distributed them among students said k saravanan headmaster of the school he said that they began the initiative at the end of november and are looking to complete it in a year while students were issued saplings of trees like neem earlier now the teachers are looking to provide saplings of trees that bear fruits such as guava or gooseberry