HYDERABAD: Municipal administration minister KT Rama Rao on Tuesday said 587 parks in GHMC limits and 103 parks in HMDA area would be developed this year.
Replying to a query during question hour on urban parks in the state, the minister said 1,109 parks would come up in other municipalities. “A total of 1,799 urban parks will be developed this year as tree parks, landscape parks and urban forest parks and some of them will be developed as panchatatva parks,” he said.
KTR told the House that 1,893 parks had been developed across the state. “Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is keen that all urban areas should have lung space and accordingly, steps are being taken,” he said. He said green cover in the state had gone up from 7% in 2014 to 29% now. “This year, we will also set up 1,000 nurseries in the municipalities,” he said. The minister said gyms and public toilets would be part of the parks in Hyderabad along with rainwater harvesting structures. The minister said plans were afoot to use recycled water for landscaping and gardening. “We will soon bring a policy on recycled water. We have 780 MLD sewarage treatment plants (STPs) and water from the plants can be used for recycling.” He said citizens will have oxygen parks. “The chief justice of the high court has expressed happiness over the oxygen park near Nalsar University recently,” he said.