Patiala’s green makeover: Butterfly & Herbal Park opened, 30K waste collected by ‘Mera Patiala Main Hi Sawaran’ team
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ May 17,2026
The ‘Mera Patiala Main Hi Sawaran’ team, which has collected nearly 30,000 kilograms of plastic waste and garbage through its 74 cleanliness drives along city roadsides, has transformed a corner filled with garbage heaps and wild bushes near the temple on Jail Road in Environment Park into a beautiful Butterfly and Herbal Park, setting a new example for the city.
Mayor of Municipal Corporation Patiala, Kundan Gogia, today inaugurated the Butterfly and Herbal Park and dedicated the open gym installed there to the public. On the occasion, he appealed to residents to join the ‘Mera Patiala Main Hi Sawaran’ campaign and contribute towards making Patiala clean and beautiful.
Mayor Gogia appreciated the efforts of the warriors and said that the Municipal Corporation and district administration are committed to making Patiala, more clean, beautiful and pollution-free with the cooperation of citizens.
Speaking on the occasion, HPS Lamba said that this place was once a den of drug addicts, and now within the next six months, the Butterfly and Herbal Park would be developed into one of the most beautiful and attractive places in the city. He added that the ‘Mera Patiala Main Hi Sawaran’ campaign has not merely developed a park, but has initiated a new chapter of cleanliness and beautification in Patiala through public participation.
He said the initiative would not only create awareness among citizens regarding cleanliness and environmental conservation but would also strengthen civic participation.
Colonel (Retd) Karaminder Singh congratulated all warriors on the inauguration of the Butterfly and Herbal Park and said that countless hours of cleaning, painting, scraping, planning, beautification and dedicated teamwork had gone into bringing about this remarkable transformation. He said every individual, whether working behind the scenes or on the ground, played an equally important role in the success of the initiative.
On the occasion, Municipal Corporation Sanitary In-charge Harvinder Singh, Jagtar Singh, Rishabh, Mohit, Inderjit Singh, Rajesh Mattu, Forest Department Beat In-charge Bittu Singh Gill, Ramanpreet Singh, Art Teacher Naginder Singh and others were also honoured.
Captain (Retd) Sukhjit Kaur said that several cleanliness-related challenges still exist in the city, particularly the tendency of people to dump waste in vacant plots and along roadsides instead of segregating wet and dry waste before handing it over for collection. She stressed that stopping such practices is the need of the hour.
Former Technical Advisor to CM Punjab Ravi Chawla, NIS SED Vineet Kumar, Prof. Ashok Verma, Rakesh Kadd, Pravesh Mangla, Rajiv Chopra, Navreet Sandhu, Simran Harika, CM Kaura, Gurpreet Dulat and other warriors were also present on the occasion.
