Zoo to host aquarium of Rs 3.5 crore
The tourist city of Mysore will add one more attraction to its attractive spots - an aquarium at a cost of Rs 3.5 crore - at the Koradji Tank in the famous Mysore Zoo that draws large number of visitors throughout the year.
Mysore district in-charge minister Shoba Karandlaje announced this during her daylong inspection of infrastructural works progressing under the Rs 100 crore special grant made for Mysore city by the Karnataka government, on Tuesday, visiting Mysore for the first time after the BJP’s candidate’s defeat in the Lok Sabha election.
The government had prepared a blue print for development of the major public parks in Mysore, for which it was famous during the period of the Mysore rulers. The Rs 7.35 crore proposal would be taken up shortly, she said.
She directed the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation authorities to complete the ongoing Rs 16-crore modernisation work of the City Bus Stand by August 15, so that it is dedicated for public use on the Independence Day.
The minister told reporters that the upgradation of the mofussil bus stand on the Bangalore-Nilgiri Road at a cost of Rs 23-crore is planned to be completed by April 2010. Both the bus stand works are part of the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission projects.
Karandlaje said 137 development works have been proposed under the special grant, of which 23 works costing Rs 2.15 crore are about to complete and 84 works were progressing at a cost of Rs 70.47 crore. Direction to complete 50 of them costing Rs 43.50 crore by June 10 has been given to the officials. A sum of Rs 1.90 crore is earmarked for 23 more works. The completed works include tarring and improvement of a number of major roads in the city.
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Besides the five sub-ways costing Rs 5 crore at five major junctions in the heart of the city, two were nearing completion on the Bangalore-Nilgiri Road, near the Dasara exhibition grounds at Doddakere, and the Sayaji Rao Road, linking Dhanvanthri Road. The remaining three would be taken up soon.
The Cabinet has approved improvement of the Dasara procession route, the Sayaji Rao Road, at a cost of Rs 16 crore. Rs 53.50 crore was being spent on development of 87-km length of roads in the city.
In order to ease the increasing traffic in the city, the police department is being allocated Rs 9 crore for installation of traffic signals, median markers and cat-eyes. Huge boards will be erected at major roads to show directions for the benefit of tourists visiting Mysore.
Two schemes for improving water supply costing Rs 10 crore is under progress. Twenty cemeteries are being improved at a cost of Rs 2.25 crore, the minister added.