On one of the Saturdays a couple of weeks ago, when 20-25 volunteers from DIYA Foundation and Gayatri Pariwar had joined hands to plant the saplings, I bumped into a student - Gaurav Dube from Bio-tecnology department of University Of Pune. He expressed interest in Green Hills Group activities and during the course of discussions, I expressed to him our intent to run a project in collboration with an academic institution around understanding the impact of the prolification of Gliricidia on acres and acres of land on the ARAI / Vetal Tekdi (Hilltop). I expressed the problem statement in following words over an email that I sent later.
