lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal inaugurated two public parks developed by South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) at Jaunapur village. According to a SDMC official, 813 trees has been planted in both the parks besides providing other facilities such as open gym, set swing with double see saw and electric poles.
Appreciating efforts of the SDMC for completing it in very short time, Baijal said that the children of the area will be benefited as they can now enjoy rides of swings and open gym installed by the corporation. He also asked the Commissioner SDMC to develop more such parks and plant as many as possible plants in the coming monsoon season.
SDMC Commissioner Puneet Kumar Goel also announced that the civic body will revive at least 15 water bodies including ‘Jaunapur Talab’ in coming days.
Goel said that SDMC will develop 100 such parks on Gram Sabha lands. “This is the first park developed by the corporation on gram sabha land allotted by revenue department of the Delhi Government and very soon it will develop 20 such parks on gram sabha lands with open gym and swigs facilities,” he said.
He further said that the civic body has set an example for other local bodies in many fields like replacing around
3 lakh conventional street lights by lED lights in record time, developing underneath area of flyovers, generating solar energy by installing solar panels on its buildings and selling the excess electivity to discom or replacing its fossil fuel vehicles by e vehicles.
A senior SDMC official said that the parks developed on gram sabha lands was allotted by the revenue department of the Delhi Government in February 2018.
On the occasion SDMC Mayor, Member of Parliament Ramesh Bidhuri, South zone Chairperson Tulshi Joshi, Area councillor Vedpal, Deputy Commissioner of South zone Nidhi Srivastava and Engineer-in-Chief Umesh Sachdeva were also present.