The steel major plans to bring additional horses from Calcutta for the buggy rides at Jubilee Park

Jamshedpur, May 12: A buggy ride through the green splendour of Jubilee Park could be the best remedy to cool your nerves this summer.

Tata Steel will soon introduce the buggy ride (horse-drawn carriage). The blueprint of the carriage has already been worked out by officials of the company.

The buggy will initially operate from the Lake entrance and trudge till the picnic spot gate of the Tata Steel Zoological Park.

The carriage will be pulled by a horse. A minimal charge will be imposed to avail of the ride.

The buggy ride would be extended to other parts of the park in due course of time. The carriage would have a capacity to accommodate six persons.

Company sources said the efforts to introduce buggy was on for some time but the plan failed to materialise as officials failed to come out with a proper blueprint.

Several drawings of the carriage was downloaded from computer and worked upon. The company had also contacted few outstation agencies for the purpose. Uday Kumar Srivastava, head, administration (societies), Tata Steel, told The Telegraph that the buggy would be introduced in three months.

“We are working on it. We will introduce the facilities in three months. It is yet another gift by Tata Steel to the people of the city,” he said.

Srivastava said, not only the blueprint of the carriage, locating the horses was another reason of things getting delayed.

“Initially, we had planned to use the horses of our Riding School. However, this plan was shelved as the horses of Riding School were not found fit for the purpose. For buggy, horses need to be calm and quiet. Riding School horses have the propensity of losing their cool very often,” he said.

The Tata Steel senior official said they had planned to get the horses from Meerut but that plan fell through as transporting the animal from a long distance would have proved to be a heady affair. “Now we plan to get the horses from Calcutta. Some of the horses are also likely to be purchased from the steel city,” he said.

Asked why the buggy would operate at a specific location and not in other parts of the Jubilee Park, Srivastava said the present location earmarked for the buggy has less traffic flow.

“After operating the buggy for some weeks in the Lake entrance-picnic spot gate, we would extend the ride to otherparts of the park,” he said.

“We would soon come out with details about the place from where the tickets for the ride could be purchased. Trainers of the Riding School would be roped in to operate the buggy,” he said.