Udaipur: A meeting was organized by Society for Microvita Research and Integrated Medicine (SMRIM), Udaipur on Sunday, 5th March, 2023 among the members and intellectual masses to discuss the status of the Semal conservation mission in Udaipur which was initiated in 2008. President of SMRIM, Dr S. K. Verma said that Semal plant is a medicinal tree whose every part (Root, Stem, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, Gum) is used for treatment of various ailments. Shrii P. R. Sarkar, the great personality of the century, the propounder of Microvita theory and a spiritual guru suggested the useful role of roots of semal tree and diabetes and heart disease in his book Yaogika Cikitsa and Dravya Guna. For the first time, scientific validation of medicinal claims on roots of Semal tree was carried out by SMRIM and its fibrinolysis enhancing, antioxidant, anabolic, blood lipids and blood glucose lowering properties were observed and published. Even a First book solely devoted to the Semal tree was published in 2012 by Springer, Germany. Shrii Sarkar also described that Semal is one of the trees of 'Panchwati' under whose shade, sages used to do psycho-spiritual meditation as Semal tree attracts positive microvita and makes the environment conducive for meditation. 
Astonishingly, besides being of medicinal and spiritual importance, the tree is cut for Holika-dahan every year in the months of February-March which is actually its flowering season. Due to this, not only a huge tree is sacrificed but also the possibility of thousands of new saplings which could be created from the flowering tree after pollination and seed setting is demolished. Hence, the trend of its untimely cutting is disastrous for its population. 
Shrii Sarkar also gave the novel concept of Neohumanism which includes love not only for human beings but also for all plants, animals and inanimate things and Dr Verma told that SMRIM is extensively working for medicinal plant Semal (Bombax ceiba) tree conservation in Udaipur district, Rajasthan in view of the neohumanist philosophy of Shrii P. R. Sarkar through awareness talks among various groups including students, NSS volunteers, rural and urban intellectual masses, group discussion, paper presentations in Conferences and Seminars, publication of popular articles in magazines and newspapers, pamphlet distribution, social media (SMS, Email, Whatsapp, Facebook group- Semal Conservation Mission), as well as through massive plantation of Semal tree saplings developed after collecting seeds from forest area and stem cuttings at various places in and around Udaipur city. Moreover, SMRIM has also provided an eco-friendly alternative of using Iron Holi-pole rather than Semal tree pole for Holika-Dahan festival since 2011. People have started adopting this concept and also burning cow dung Holi/bamboo holi or using a semal tree branch in a symbolic way instead of burning the whole tree. This all is historical as carried out for the first time for conservation of semal trees. Since, 2021, SMRIM has declared 'Maghi Purnima' (the day when Semal is planted for Holika dahan, one month before Holi) as 'Semal Day' and is doing awareness programs in both offline and online modes to celebrate the day. He made an appeal to all to make people aware in their surroundings about the immense importance of this tree species and urged them to plant it more and more so that the tradition of burning Semal holi could be continued in future also. In the end, SMRIM, Joint secretary, G. L. Soni gave thanks to all the participants who attended the meeting and urged to help in the semal conservation mission.