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Joggers will soon be a happy lot

— Photo: R. Eswarraj

In progress: The new jogging track at Kadri Park in Mangalore.

MANGALORE: A new jogging track laid with interlocking tiles has replaced the old uneven track at Kadri Park in Mangalore.

Several months after Legislative Council Chairman B.K. Chandrashekar chided officials of the Horticulture Department for ignoring the problem, the park seems to have improved.

A group of youngsters from Vamanjoor said they had come to the park after several months and found that it had undergone a lot of changes.

Regular visitors such as Survey Engineer Vijay D’Souza, who takes his evening walk in the park, concurred. He said that the weeds and unwanted bushes had disappeared.

Mr. D’Souza and his friend Ganesh Sagar, a civil contractor, entered the park through the rear gate near National Highway 17. The gate remains closed as almost half of it is buried in stagnant water. Mr. D’Souza said that the gate should be kept open at least on weekends. This would ensure that the road near the main gate was less crowded.

Another major grouse was that tiles had not been laid throughout the track causing water to stagnate. Mr. D’Souza and Mr. Sagar also said that there should be more place for families to sit and relax in the park.

Senior Assistant Director of Horticulture (State sector) N. Somaiah said the track would be completed by July-end.

Mr. Somaiah said the track was being laid by Dakshina Kannada Nirmithi Kendra and he Mr. Somaiah said that the missing swings in the children’s play area would be replaced soon, and ornamental plants would come up on either side of the jogging track. The rear gate would be kept open, he said.

A skating rink and a European-style compound for the park have been planned. Mr. Somaiah said that 4.5 acres of land between the two petroleum outlets on the adjoining National Highway would be developed soon.

He said they were consulting legal experts as to whether a stay could be obtained on work on a petroleum outlet being set up on land that originally belonged to the park.

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