The project proposes to carry forward the very successful garden restoration and environmental development of Humayun’s Tomb to other key sites within the project area. AKDN environmental development initiatives are in partnership and consultation with the land owning government agencies in the Humayun’s Tomb-Nizamuddin Basti- Sunder Nursery project area.
The environmental development initiatives include a major re-development of Sunder Nursery into an urban park with a significant ecological resource, the landscaping and ecological treatment of the Barahpulah nallah in Nizamuddin Basti and the rehabilitation and development of the Nila Gumbad parkland besides landscaping of urban parks within Nizamuddin Basti.
Work in Sunder Nursery and the development of urban parks in Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti is already underway. As part owners of the land around Nila Gumbad, Northern Railways sanction to landscape and develop the area into a green buffer to the World Heritage Site is awaited following requests first made in October 2007.