Draw up your itinerary, for the Lalbagh flower show opens tomorrow. Over 4.5 lakh people flocked to Lalbagh’s flower show last year taking the collection of the nine-day event to over Rs80 lakh.
Draw up your itinerary, for the Lalbagh flower show opens tomorrow. Over 4.5 lakh people flocked to Lalbagh’s flower show last year taking the collection of the nine-day event to over Rs80 lakh.
The number is likely to go up this time making crowd management more crucial.
Even as Bangaloreans eagerly await the flower show that will be thrown open to public on January 19, organisers plan to place concealed cameras at “strategic points” in the Glass House which will have this year’s twin attractions — a model of the Metro coach decorated with flowers and an impression of Kempegowda tower. As part of the measures for crowd management, “extra police strength and internal security guards will be deployed”, department officials said.
Visitors’ bags will be checked at all four entry points. Plastic packets and food parcels will not be allowed. Refreshments will be available at the food court set up near the Siddapura Gate entrance. Even stalls set up inside, will be discouraged from using plastic bags, said N Jayaram, director of horticulture, Lalbagh.
Four wheelers will be allowed to enter through the South Gate (Siddapura Gate, No. 3) and park in the space provided. Two wheelers will be allowed entry through Double Road gate (Gate No. 2). During the show, walkers are being requested to park their vehicles inside the garden, near the Double road gate, and leave before 8.30 am. On weekends, a single person bringing a car will have to shell out Rs50, while car with 8 persons will be charged Rs330. School children below 12 years of age will be admitted free of cost on 24 and 16.
This year, the horticulture department has spent close to Rs50 lakh on putting the show together. The model of the Metro coach — 33-feet long and 5.5-feet high — will be decorated with over 50,000 flowers like orchird, anthoriums, carnations, heliconia, lillium, brasssia fignatia. About 268 varieties of annual flowers will also be displayed.
The popularity of the show has been on the rise among those who take part in the competitions held on the sidelines. “We’ve received close to 1,600 entries. This is 150 more than last year,” Jayaram said.
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