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Hyderabad
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The Rs. 1.5 crore Saroornagar park has sculptures, ornamental landscape, boating facility Indira sports complex at Vanasthalipuram; Indoor stadium in the pipeline
New attraction: The sprawling newly-developed park along the Saroornagar Lake.
HYDERABAD: They really make a difference to their surroundings. Pleasing landscape, lawns, play area for children, pathways for walkers and the much needed lung space. Members of the Vanasthalipuram residents welfare association in LB Nagar can’t wait for the August 25 inauguration of the Rajiv Park being developed by HUDA at Phase III, NGOs’ Colony. “This five-acre park is a boon to people of 30 colonies here. We never imagined a beautiful park would come up here. We thank the HUDA Chairman and officials,” said beaming senior citizens Veeraiah and Ramkoti Reddy. Even the Saroornagar park in 4.5 acres adjoining the Saroorngar lake restored four years ago under the lake conservation programme is getting ready for inauguration by July-end. Progress reviewed
HUDA Chairman D.Sudheer Reddy, Vice-Chairman Jayesh Ranjan, accompanied by Chief Engineer Vivek Deshmukh, BPPA Special Officer N.Chandramohan Reddy inspected the parks and reviewed their progress on Wednesday. As all the major parks were located in the city, HUDA had directed the commissioners of erstwhile municipalities to identify vacant lands for developing them into parks. Some parks were already developed in Rajendranagar Municipality and others were being developed in Kukatpally, Qutbullapur, Uppal and other areas. Once neglected open areas in municipal areas were being transformed into parks, giving residents good recreation space. Eventually such parks may be handed over to GHMC for maintenance, Mr.Sudheer Reddy said. Indira sports complex in Vanasthalipuram will be inaugurated soon while a Rs.6-crore Indoor Stadium with a swimming pool was sanctioned, he said. The Saroornagar park developed along the Saroornagar lake with water spread of 99 acres at a cost of Rs.1.5 crore has interesting sculptures, ornamental landscape, boating facility and environment education centre. The lake itself improved after the construction of 2.5 MLD Sewage Treatment plant by HUDA four years ago with all the sewage from surrounding Trimurthy, Tapovan, Green Park, Singareni and other colonies being treated before letting into the lake. STPs would take five to 10 years to turn around the quality of once highly polluted lakes, said Mr.Deshmukh. With lake water quality improving, even the migratory birds returned in big numbers this season. As 95 per cent of sewage was being treated, lake as well as groundwater parameters were improving, Mr.Jayesh Ranjan said.
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