Vandalur zoo visited by 28000 people- highest in the last 3 years
Posted on: 01/Jan/2020 2:24:47 PM
This is the time of vacation for schools and colleges in Chennai and people visit many places of recreation in Chennai in the vacations for the sake of relaxing and enjoyment.
Vandalur zoo in Chennai is one such place and many visit this place along with their families during holidays etc. It is known that this zoo was opened in the year 1985.
On Sunday, this Vandalur zoo was full of people and it had 28,000 plus visitors. This is now the highest in the last 3 years. Otteri lake was opened on the zoo premises is known. It is now said that this Otteri Lake plus the holidays of educational institutions have contributed to this amazing number of visitors on Sunday.
It was later revealed by some zoo officials that during the same day in the year 2018, 16212 people made their presence felt in Vandalur zoo and in 2017 the zoo had just 10,463 visitors. There has been 77 percent increase in the number of visitors at this zoo on 29th December when compared to 2018.
An official belonging to Vandalur zoo mentioned that when compared to 2017 the rise now is amazing 174 percent. Superb piece of information that has come out is in the last 10 days as many as 1.32 lakh people visited this zoo. In 2018, the number of visitors was 1.06 lakhs and in 2017 it was 96.000. It is very clear that Vandalur zoo has become a major source of attraction for many now.
For the purpose of providing better facilities for the visitors, Vandalur zoo has hired 2 more battery operated carts. It is known that there are already a dozen of carts in this zoo. It is important to mention that 8 battery operated carts with seating capacity of 14, 3 carts with capacity of 8 seats and a 6 seat cart are available in this zoo. For the public transportation, all other carts except 6 seat cart are being used is known. Director and deputy director with range officers inspect various works in this zoo and they use 6-seater carts.
