After Greater Noida, the neighbouring Gurgaon is set to create night safari in the city to boost tourism in Millennium City. Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) on Friday said it will acquire 1,300 acres land in different parts of the city for establishing night safari destination centres.
Gurgaon is known as developed city in Haryana with a large number of MNC and IT hubs, including BPOs and KPOs(Knowledge Processing Outsourcing).
“We will provide people different kinds of entertainment facilities in the district. We are planning to utilise unused places for revenue generation by developing it for entertainment to attract domestic and foreign tourists,” said Praveen Kumar, HUDA Administrator.
The initiative has been taken under State tourism department under which food courts, different types of playgrounds for adventure as well as conventional gaming, amusement parks, bio-diversity parks and other artificial and natural resources will be developed to attract people and enjoy the city’s nightlife.
Night safari has been quite successful in developed nations. Singapore has developed such an area over 40 hectare land with 1,000 animals and 115 different species. The Gurgaon night safari destination will be different from Singapore.
“I have directed concerned officials in the department to earmark places and draw detail project reports as per geographical locations. The completion of this project will rank Gurgaon as the first city in the country to have such a facility,” Kumar added.
Kumar has however, not pointed out which places are going to be designated but sources inform that villages which HUDA had adopted in the past might be chosen.
The Arawali region will not be earmarked for this purpose as it will violate forestry norms set by Supreme Court against encroachment.
The new project will also lure residents of the city, including Delhi-NCR.