PANCHKULA: A multi-featured park is to be built on 18 acres of land in Sector 24 at a cost of Rs 30 crore. Describing the upcoming park as the best in the Tricity, officials said it would be equipped with a slew of features for visitors.
The park will offer facilities like open air theatre, open cafe, cycling and jogging track, foot overbridge, meditation garden, skating rink, musical fountain etc.
“Panchkula is a city of parks and this one will add to its beauty,” said Haryana Assembly speaker Gian Chand Gupta. He added that there was a plan to build two hotels-cum-banquet halls along the park.
On the two drains crossing through the residential area, Gupta said work on cleaning and beautifying the drains was being done at a cost of Rs 15 crore. He said beautification of the drain from Mata Mansa Devi to Sector 17-18 had started and cleaning of the drain of sectors 2 and 4 would start soon.
Gupta also said that efforts were being made to make Panchkula a leader in terms of cleanliness and greenery. He has been working on issues like making the city free of encroachments, slums, stray cattle, street dogs, drug, pollution and plastic, he said. Soliciting public cooperation, he said the involvement of Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) and NGOs was being secured.
