The Din Dayal Park situated at the heart of a VVIP colony near Morhabadi in the city is getting readied for a grand opening for public in a couple of moths for now. An array of seasonal flowers, miniatures of some sea animals made on grass, musical- fountain and coloured lights are placed to attract the city residents.
Forest Department Range Officer Ramesh Kumar Singh said, “The Park will be open for the people on the scheduled time, as the department is leaving no stone unturned in completing the project. As many as two gardeners and six labourers have been deputed for maintenance of the park.”
According to Singh the place use to be a henroost of city’s youth, but with the efforts of Government of Jharkhand and Forest Development Corporation it has been developed into a beautiful see-through park.
The project estimated is cost `79 lakh. Till date `49 lakh has been received from Government of Jharkhand for the project. Ranchi Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Rajeev lochan Bakshi said, “The project is divided into two phase. In Phase one, beautification of park and in phase two painting of fence and fitting of clay tiles has to be carried out. The work is phase one is one the verge of completion, the total amount spend on it is `49 lakh. `30 lakh has been sanctioned for the second phase and it is expected that the work of second phase will also be started by December.”
The park is surrounded with variety of marigold, Chinese flowers, poppy, cherry gold, cosmos and dahlia.