Over the last few weekends, thousands of people have been enjoying the sun and taking in the beauty of nature in Delhi's green spaces, among them Lodhi Garden, Sunder Nursery and Nehru Park. At least 17,000 people visited Sunder Nursery on over the weekend of 12 February.
The dwindling bee population over the last decade has slowly become a matter of concern, prompting conservation efforts across different cities around the world, including Delhi. At Sunder Nursery, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) has set up 12 bee boxes along with Golden Hive Foundation.
In India, the Aga Khan schools – which have been delivering quality early childhood development programmes since 1978 – have developed a home-based blended learning “e-School for Preschool” programme for students aged 3-6 years: 1’000 children across urban and rural regions in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Telangana are learning and connecting digitally from home.
Sunder Nursery is famous for its gardens, water bodies, monuments, and biodiversity. Created and managed by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), once barren land, the park has quickly grown to become the city’s most sought after outdoor recreational place.
Rakesh Gupta, a 62-year-old beekeeper from Lucknow in India, travels with his beehive-boxes across the country. He migrates with them to orchards in Kashmir, the coasts of Gujarat, the high altitudes of Himachal Pradesh, to Uttarakhand and to Rajasthan.
For the second year running the Aga Khan Trust for Culture has won two important awards from UNESCO’s Asia-Pacific regional office – the Award for Excellence and Special Recognition for Sustainable Development – for its holistic urban revitalisation of Delhi’s historic Nizamuddin Basti.