Onam celebrations at Aluva DySP’s office has marked a new beginning. Office of the Deputy Superintendent of Police Aluva was a picture of merriment on Tuesday afternoon as DySP R Salim chose to harvest the fruit of his effort as well as that of his subordinates. It was on Atham day he chose to cut the vegetables he and his team have grown in the office compound, marking a beginning to their Onam this year.
Approximately on a thousand sq ft of unused land on the right side of his office, DySP R Salim cultivated an assortment of vegetables, which included chillies, brinjal, bottle gourd, bitter gourd, ladies finger and long bean. At the back of his office, again on a thousand sqft area, he cultivated banana. The front side of his office bears a big creeper net grown with Philippine long beans.
DySP R Salim said, “The two or three stations he had worked at earlier, he had succeeded in using the space available to transform it into a vegetable garden or banana orchard.”
At the vegetable garden here, there were about one kilogram of chillies, 10 kilos of brinjal, five kilos of bitter gourd, five kilos of bottle gourd, and 1 kg of ladies finger.
Salim says that he got the seeds for his vegetable garden from the Agricultural University at Mannuthy through one of his friends. “For most part, the fate of cultivation depends on what sort of seeds one uses. Seeds bought from the market are usually counterproductive. Most of the times your effort and time spent goes useless,” he says.
In his vegetable and banana orchard, he has used only organic manures and water.
From the backyard of banana trees, which was all weeds and hedges, Salim cut down a dozen of the banana bunches (stems), each weighing 15 to 20 kilos. “It was all the result of 10 months of effort.” He says he found a little time every day to tend to his garden.
He has filled his house compound also with vegetable plants. Naturally, he has never bought vegetables from the market. The harvest from the office compound would be distributed among the office staff, he says.
DySP R Salim had been a model for all the officers in keeping the office and house compounds productive. To honour his effort, the Aluva municipality had bestowed him with a special award recently.
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