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Civic body sends Rs. 12.15 crore proposal to govt. for zoo improvement project

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The Hindu            17.08.2017  

Civic body sends Rs. 12.15 crore proposal to govt. for zoo improvement project

Coimbatore Corporation to take up zoo modernisation under the Smart Cities plan.S. SIVA SARAVANANS. SIVA SARAVANAN  

After deciding to take up the zoo improvement project under the Smart Cities mission, the Coimbatore Corporation has sent the proposal for Rs. 12.15 crore to the State Government for approval. Sources in the Coimbatore Corporation said that the zoo designers/consultants, the corporation had engaged sometime last year, had submitted a plan, which they sent to the Central Zoo Authority for approval.

The plan was to annex the nearby VOC Park so that the total area of the zoo was around 10 acre.

This was to ensure that each animal/species had adequate free ranging area and that complied with the Authority’s norms.

The Authority sought a few clarifications, which the corporation had successfully addressed. Even as it awaited the Authority’s approval for redesigning the zoo, the corporation had sent the proposal under the Smart Cities mission to the State Government for financial approval.

The Coimbatore Smart City Limited, the special purpose vehicle created for executing projects under the Smart Cities mission, also approved of the proposal, the sources said.

Meanwhile, the corporation had relocated two camels and 28 goat to animal cattle shelter near Coimbatore and had planned to send a few more to another cattle shelter in Pollachi. It was also in talks with the Forest Department to see how it could rehabilitate feral and commonly found animals so that the number of animals and birds went down, the sources added.