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The Coimbatore Corporation has intensified works to found 2 swimming pools, including an international-standard grooming facility, connected the premises of the VOC Park Zoo successful the city.
The zoo, 1 of the landmarks of Coimbatore, was established successful 1965 and housed 532 animals belonging to 40 species, including reptiles, birds and mammals. However, the Central Zoo Authority revoked the zoo’s designation successful 2022 citing deficiency of earthy situation and inadequate infrastructure facilities. Following the closure of the zoo, the animals were shifted to the Arignar Anna Zoological Park astatine Vandalur.
With the zoo premises remaining unused, the Corporation decided to utilise the abstraction for nationalist recreation and sports infrastructure. The civic assemblage subsequently took up works to conception a swimming excavation for nationalist usage and a abstracted modern grooming excavation for swimmers and athletes.
Corporation officials said the task progressive operation of 2 swimming pools wrong the Zoo field astatine a full outgo of astir ₹8 crore. Of this, ₹3.5 crore has been allocated for a swimming excavation for the public, portion ₹4.5 crore has been earmarked for the international-standard grooming excavation for sportspersons.
Funding
The officials said the task was being funded done contributions from Rajya Sabha MP Kamal Haasan, allocations nether the MP Local Area Development Scheme, and the Namakku Naame scheme.
According to the officials, astir 25% of the works for the nationalist swimming excavation person been completed, portion marking and earthwork for the international-standard excavation are nether way. The officials said the works were progressing astatine a brisk gait and were expected to beryllium completed wrong the adjacent 2 to 3 months.
