Tree plantation is one of the oldest programs of VSSU. With its inception in 1983, VSSU started its social forestry program to protect environment with the following objectives:

Purification of the environment.

Economic growth of the community.

Provision of shade in order to reduce the exhaustion of worker or rickshaw-van pullers.

Prevention of soil erosion.

Production of wood for fuel.

Beautification of the village.

VSSU Nursery

VSSU also runs one Nursery on 3 acres of land. Every year it breeds 2-3 Lac of saplings, including Akashmoni (Sonajhuri), Sirish, Sishu, Tick, Mahogini, Safeda, Radhachura, Coconut and other ornamental plants.

Presently, VSSU has planted 140 square-kilometers of trees in the district of South 24 Parganas