Soon vertical gardens to be present on flyovers, sky walks, bridges etc in Chennai
Posted on: 01/Apr/2019 10:56:48 AM
Soon we could come across vertical gardens on the two piers of the flyover at the popular G.N. Chetty Road and this is being set up by GCC or Greater Chennai Corporation is known. Now the latest news is the civic body has got amazing plans to beautify 14 other flyovers, skywalks plus others like causeways bridges etc in the Chennai city and an amount of Rs 7 crores would be spent for this purpose. After the mode code of conduct ends in May month, proposal to beautify the above said places would be sanctioned.
It is bought out that the vertical garden on G.N. Chetty Road cost Rs 30 lakh and the contractor would maintain the vertical gardens here for a period of 1 year. Point is after a year the vertical garden would be taken care of for the yearly maintenance by the owner of a textile showroom on the street.
As per Mr. Govinda Rao who is the deputy commissioner work, GCC, it is clear that other vertical gardens that would be set up would be maintained by the public entities and residential welfare associations. The superb piece of news is both dust as well as heat would be absorbed by the species present in the vertical garden. In the future more such gardens would be set up in Chennai and better species would be present in those gardens.
Mr. G. Prakash is the corporation commissioner of Chennai and he expressed his thoughts about the vertical gardens. He explained about how treated water from the sewage treatment plants would be used at the corporation parks and pump grey water from metro water so that these gardens could be maintained.
He then spoke about how the vertical gardens would be set up in as many as 108 pillars of 14 flyovers in Chennai. An amount of Rs 1 crore would be needed every year to maintain these gardens in these flyovers. Smart City Mission played a major role in the setting up of vertical garden on the G.N. Chetty Road flyover and for other vertical gardens in the Chennai city would be fund tie ups.
