Horticulture dept honours frontline workers

Udhagamandalam: The horticulture department on Monday opened the Government Botanical Garden (GBG) exclusively for 50 government nurses to honour them for their fight against Covid-19.
The staff at GBG welcomed the nurses by clapping and presenting flower bouquets to each one of them.
Besides ‘floral structures’, there were 15,000 flowerpots displayed in the garden.
“This is to honour the people who are working amid coronavirus pandemic. We are going to honour all the frontline workers including doctors, nurses, police, revenue officials and sanitary workers,” joint director of horticulture department Shiva Subramaniam Samraj said.
“We are going to honour 50 people daily. To start with, 50 nurses were honoured today,” the official said.
“It is a proud moment. We feel honoured,” one of the nurses said.
The GBG was closed for public in the last week of March following COVID-19 crisis.