Beautifying cities: Modern parks to be built in 3 districts
In complicated times, parks are not deliberate amenities though rather necessities, providing distraction and essential remit from a city’s dispatch and bustle. PHOTO: INP
BAHAWALPUR: The supervision has set aside Rs565 million for substantiating state-of-the-art horticulture parks on 155 acres of land in 3 districts of Bahawalpur Division.
The mega recreational projects will be instituted in Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar and Rahim Yar Khan districts underneath a subsequent mercantile year’s growth programme.
The parks would include of complicated recreational facilities, landscaping, chronological monuments, sports facilities, and botanical and zoological gardens.
These sum were common by Bahawalpur Commissioner Saqib Zafar while chairing a assembly during his bureau on Friday. “These projects will yield decent recreational comforts to millions of residents along with enhancing health, aesthetics and environmental form of these 3 districts,” he said.
Zafar pronounced a projects enclosed a park in a Bahawalpur district widespread over an area of 67 acres that would be built with an estimated cost of Rs187 million.
Another park in Bahawalnagar covering an area of 30 acres will be determined during an estimated cost of Rs98 million. The park in Rahim Yar Khan widespread over an area of 58 acres will be built during an estimated cost of Rs280 million.
The commissioner destined a officials to take effective measures to daunt a enlightenment of wall-chalking and pasting banners on buildings that shop-worn a cultured demeanour of county areas.
Parks and Horticulture Authority Director-General Dr Ehtesham Anwer Mahar pronounced greenbelts and flowerbeds would be planted along all vital roads of a city.
He combined a painting and augmentation of 17 parks had been completed, while landscaping and painting of all entrance points of a city was underneath way.
In complicated times, parks are not deliberate amenities though rather necessities, providing distraction and essential remit from a city’s dispatch and bustle. Visionaries trust parks contingency be accessible to all residents, generally those who do not have a resources to shun to a countryside.
In new years, government’s seductiveness in city parks has revived. Governments and county groups around a nation have revitalised run-down city parks, assembled greenbelts and planted gardens in empty lots.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 1st, 2016.
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