The UT Administration has given its nod for a park to be built for the visually impaired by the Municipal Corporation (MC) near the Institute for Blind, Sector 26. It would be the first-of-its-kind park in the country where the visually impaired would be able to experience the beauty of nature through touch and smell.
The blind park will be a sort of an amusement park designed and decorated with various equipment for playing besides a fantasy land, dream garden and an adventure land.
The park will be developed on the pattern of the blind park in Bangkok. Names of the plants would also be inscribed in braille.
The idea had been mooted by the councillors, led by Dr A P Sanwaria who had gone on a ten-day trip to Singapore and Bangkok. In the report of the trip, the councillors had recommended that a blind park be set up on the lines of what they had seen. The MC House had passed the proposal earlier and the final approval was awaited from the Administration.
Dr Sanwaria, while welcoming the decision stated that the park would be a unique facility which would prove to be beneficial for the visually impaired population of the city.
Mayor Pardeep Chhabra said that the site for the blind park had been approved by the Finance Secretary-cum-Secretary, Urban Planning, UT Administration and has been released to the Municipal Corporation for further necessary action.
The construction of the park is likely to start soon.
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