Know about these new additions in Chennai for the use of the residents?
Posted on: 06/Oct/2022 9:33:19 AM
In the future, in Chennai, there would be 42 new parks and 11 playgrounds that would be constructed at an amount of Rs 20 crores. The Chennai Corporation has issued work orders for these. The parks would be constructed at a cost of Rs 16.19crores and playgrounds would be constructed at a cost of Rs 4.5 crores under the Singara Chennai 2.0.
Various facilities that would be available for the residents in these parks are walkways, kids play areas, open gym equipment, painted compound walls plus others like landscaping, traditional tree varieties, basic drinking water and toilet facilities etc.
At an estimated cost of Rs 76 lakhs, 2 parks would come up in Thiruvottiyur based Ashok Gardens and Hansa Gems area. This zone in Chennai has the least number of parks and hence the residents here have been demanding for new parks. Parks would be constructed in places like Madhavaram, Tondiarpet and Royapuram etc and Thiru Vi Ka Nagar would get 3 parks.
In areas including Padi Kuppam Road and Nakeeran Road in Ambattur and Ganga Nagar and TNHB Colony in Valasaravakkam, there would be 7 parks that would be constructed by the GCC. Localities like Adyar, Perungudi and Sholinganallur etc would get 3parks, 1 park and 9 parks respectively.
According to an official belonging to GCC, availability of space and OSR lands were the 2 important factors that were considered for the setting up of parks. Localities like Kodambakkam and Teynampet belonging to the central GCC zone were not considered for the parks due to the above said 2 factors. As per the deadline that has been mentioned in the contract, the works would get completed and this was according to an official.
It is known that the Chennai Corporation maintains 738 parks, 220 playgrounds, 173 gyms and 204 childrens park etc under the parks and playfields department.
