Bhubaneswar: Residents can provide their suggestions or inputs to the city administration, based on which they will make efforts to improve the ambience at the parks here.
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation and the Bhubaneswar Development Authority, along with other allied agencies, have started the initiative and are asking for inputs from the citizens about the usability and needs of various parks located in the city.
The administration has begun an online survey, where citizens could make their contribution. To make the survey more popular and get succeeded in the initiative, the administration has put the link of the assessment survey on various social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter.
"We have constantly improving the facilities at various parks and such efforts have made the places more happening nowadays. We want to continue providing good services, for which we have initiated the survey. Anyone can visit the link and submit their inputs. We will make efforts to live up to the expectation," said mayor Ananta Narayan Jena.
The survey, which is being done using Google Service, will ask the citizens their names, ages, number of family members, duration of stay in the city, reasons for not visiting any parks, frequency of visiting parks, what needs to be added, names of their favourite parks and preferable time of visiting the facilities among others.
"Certain parks have become favourite places for the people as we introduced the open air gyms, skating rinks, acupressure pathways among others. We have increased the timings of the parks for this reason. We want to make the parks more happening by improving its ambience further," said chief horticulturist of the development body A.N. Dhar.
Surya Nagar resident Prabhat Sharma said the parks were good places to spend your leisure time and the administration was doing well in maintaining the facilities, but it had to be done with the smaller parks as well. "The bigger parks are well maintained with added facilities, but it is not the same with colony parks," said Sharma.
