Coimbatore Corporation plans to complete 4.5-acre bamboo park by February

The Coimbatore Corporation plans to implicit a 4.5-acre bamboo parkland enactment astatine SIHS Colony successful Ward 55 by February this year.

Corporation Commissioner M. Sivaguru Prabakaran precocious inspected the tract and instructed officials to expedite the works to guarantee the task is completed connected schedule.

The instauration chromatic for the task was laid successful September 2025.

The Corporation is investing ₹1.48 crore from its wide money to make a greenish abstraction for nationalist usage successful the city.

Officials said the parkland volition big much than 20 histrion taxon and implicit 25 varieties of plants, shrubs, and bamboo. Proposed histrion taxon see Terminalia arjuna, Pongamia pinnata, Mimusops elengi, and Butea monosperma. Bamboo varieties specified arsenic Bambusa vulgaris and Phyllostachys aurea volition besides beryllium planted, on with selected herbal and ornamental plants, including Cymbopogon citratus. While astir trees are autochthonal species, immoderate bamboo and ornamental plants are introduced varieties.

Planned facilities see a walking track, seating arrangements, drinking h2o facilities, and toilets. Basic play instrumentality for children and a abstraction for activities specified arsenic yoga are besides included. An open-air country is portion of the layout.

Officials said the parkland is being developed connected the lines of the 12-acre bamboo parkland established successful Tiruppur. Representatives of the declaration bureau and consultancy steadfast visited the Tiruppur parkland to usher the readying process. Efforts are besides being made to make a mounting resembling a bamboo grove.