Ground-breaking ceremony of park likely during Kankaria Carnival as Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation plans to set up a butterfly park at One Tree Hill Garden
There will soon be one more reason to visit Kankaria as Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation is planning to set up a butterfly park at One Tree Hill Garden. The civic body plans to perform the ground-breaking ceremony during the Kankaria Carnival in December.
The idea of setting up the butterfly park has been floated by municipal commissioner Guruprasad Mohapatra. At present, One Tree Hill garden has many flowering plants which attract swarms of butterflies. However, the butterflies generally cannot tolerate extreme weather conditions and disappear by February. "Butterfly Park will create an environment which will help people enjoy the sight of these brightly winged creatures flying around them during the whole year," said MS Patel, deputy municipal commissioner of Kankaria Lakefront Development.
The AMC will create two pathways in the area of One Tree Hill that faces Kankaria Lake for visitors, thus allowing them to have a close look at the butterflies. The civic body plans to set up an interpretation centre in the park which will house plastic models of butterflies representing the myriad varieties of these beautiful insect species, so that people can identify them and get more information about them. Moreover, the centre will explain the entire breeding cycle of the butterfly, from laying eggs to larva and their development into a butterfly.
"Our purpose is to create awareness among people about the role of butterflies in ecology. This may prevent children from killing the insects," said Patel.
The permission of the central zoo authority and state forest department will be required to cover the top with a net to keep the butterflies in the park area, but no permission is required to create an open-to-sky park. "We will put the proposal before the concerned authorities to cover the top but till such permission is given, it will be open-to-sky," he said.
Although the civic body is yet to figure out the exact amount to be spent on the park, the total expenditure is likely to be around Rs1 crore.
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