About Emerald Enclave
Emerald Enclave is a private layout developed by Mr.Venugopal V R nearly 25 years ago from barren land. Today Emerland Enclave is home to fifty thousand trees and variety of flora and founa and interesting residents.
The 120 acres of land is named as Emerald Enclave and is located just outside Mysuru city (behind Infosys Mysuru Campus), in a previously uninhabited village called Anaganahally of Belagola hobli in Srirangapattana taluk.
Emerald Enclave was started by buying this land which was then totally barren, dry and uncultivated in 1990 with plans of growing teak trees using ground water from bore wells and micro drip irrigation.
Since most of the plots are empty as the owners are outside Mysore, and many abroad, to bring in some residents and establish others facilities he undertook to build these 28 apartments. You can read a brief bio about the founder by clicking on About Founder link...
The area Emerald Enclave nearly 25 years ago was a barren land...
Initially, the founder of Emerald Enclave with the limited resources he had could buy up to 30 acres of land. Eventually, expanded it up to 120 acres of land.
Now, the same Emerald Enclave! Greenery in every direction you look...
Building at a distance is Infosys Campus Mysuru.
Benefits of an idea like Emerald Enclave
There is a long list benefits that are derived by turning a waste land into dense greenery at Emerald Enclave.
Mini Forest:
Around 50,000 trees welcome visitors to the area, which was once a waste land.
The Air:
The best thing the trees do is “absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen” with 50,000 teak trees and many others. The Air here is cleaner and richer in Oxygen.
Upgradation of the quality of soil:
The termites and microbes that thrive on the dropped foliage and tree bark turn the same in to rich fertile soil. Here in Emerald Enclave, over the last 20 years more than one foot of fresh fertile soil is formed.
Flora and fauna:
Over the years more than fifty species of birds have moved in to this place and are growing into large numbers. They feed on the millions of micro fauna that are thriving on the food shelter provided by trees. There are squirrels, rabbits, peacocks etc. Trees result in more life.
Ground water:
In this enclave we have completely harvested the rain water and not a drop of water flows out of here. The trees absorb the rain water as it drops and releases slowly. This has resulted in the rise of ground water to higher levels in spite of constant pumping from the ground. Further, small bunds on road side to prevent water from flowing away to low level area, has increased the ground water levels by recharging.
Jobs:
This project has directly created over fifty jobs directly and around 100 plus jobs indirectly!
Peace and Tranquility:
The purpose of life is to be happy and make others happy. This enclave has done both.
Read more about the Founder here
About the founder