Park developed with private partnership

The Coimbatore Corporation recently threw open a park near the Gopal Naidu children’s school to the public after the Gopal Naidu Education Trust developed the reserved site at Rs. 10 lakh.

Municipal Administration Minister S.P. Velumani inaugurated the park in the presence of the Trust’s trustee and industrialist Ravi Sam, councillor P.K. Rajendran and members of the public.

Sources said that the Trust took up with the Corporation for over a year the plan to develop the reserved site. After a getting a nod from the Corporation, the Trust invested Rs. 10 lakh in planting saplings, landscaping and constructing walkers’ path, installing children’s play equipment and street lights.

Some more work was pending and those would be completed in the coming days.

But before developing the reserved site, the Trust had to clean it of debris that was dumped there, the sources said and added that the Trust would also take care of the maintenance of the park.

According to Ravi Sam, the Trust would install drip irrigation system and add lawn mowers. It would also erect information boards on the growth and development of Peelamedu.

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