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Civil Aviation Minister K. Rammohan Naidu virtually laid the instauration chromatic of Yuvagalam Anti-Drug and Glow Theme Park astatine the Central Park successful Dwarkanagar of Visakhapatnam connected Saturday (October 11, 2025). The Minister instructed the officials acrophobic to implicit the task astatine the earliest.
The Visakhapatnam Metropolitan Region Development Authority (VMRDA) is processing the parkland connected 2 acres of the 20-acre Central Park with an concern of ₹3.5 crore. VMRDA president M.V. Pranav Gopal, metropolitan commissioner K.S. Vishwanathan among others were contiguous astatine the event.
VMRDA president speaking to The Hindu said, “The thought of this anti-drug parkland was ours. I got the thought of developing the parkland aft observing the pulse of the younker during our person Nara Lokesh’s Yuvagalam run during the wide elections successful 2024. Then, Lokesh had assured the younker that helium would formulate plans and projects for consciousness and eradication of the drugs. So, we planned this anti-drug parkland with an purpose to bring consciousness among the younker astir the ill-effects of drugs. The parkland volition beryllium functional for visitors successful the adjacent six months.”
Mr. Pranav said that the parkland volition besides person a rehabilitation centre wherever radical addicted to drugs volition beryllium counselled. Overall, helium said, its main nonsubjective is to amended visitors successful an unfastened and peaceful venue with the enactment of psychologists, counsellors, educationists and instrumentality enforcement officers.
He said that different portion of this task volition beryllium a Glow Garden. Currently, determination is simply a glow plot astatine Ahmedabad successful Gujarat, wherever sculptures of animals, trees, and cartoons airy up astatine night. “We are visiting Ahmedabad soon to survey this. It volition beryllium cynosure of the full Central Park,” Mr. Pranav added.
A labyrinth, acceptable of analyzable paths and routes, volition besides beryllium included successful the park, which is fashionable successful galore cities. There are notable labyrinth parks, the astir celebrated of which is Bara Imambara successful Lucknow.
“Labyrinths person been utilized for centuries arsenic tools for meditation and prayer. Walking done a labyrinth is simply a peaceful and reflective experience. They are utilized for healing, accent alleviation and spiritual exploration. Walking done a labyrinth provides an accidental to get distant from regular beingness and link with one’s interior self. So, we volition spot a labyrinth besides successful the anti-drug park,” said different VMRDA official.
