Now, details of over 60 MBMC gardens just a click away

The citizens planning to go for a stroll or recreational activities will now be able to get the exact location of the nearest municipal garden in the twin-city along with other details at the click of the mouse. In a first of its kind initiative under Majhi Vasundhara Abhiyan’s Van Mahotsav 2022, the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) has launched www.mbmcgardencity.com- a dedicated website which not only shows the ward wise list and exact locations of municipal gardens but also provides information like time-tables, area in sq mt, number and nature of trees, species of heritage trees, flowers and other available amenities like lakes and playing equipment in the respective gardens.

Also having a feedback section, the website-which will operate under the aegis of MBMC’s Tree Authority-was launched on Tuesday by civic chief Dilip Dhole in the presence of DCP (Zone I)Amit Kale, standing committee chairman Rakesh Shah, Leader of House Prashant Dalvi and opposition leader Dhanesh Patil.

“Apart from enhancing the overall quality of civic services, we have also trained our attention towards increasing the green cover of the twin-city and proper upkeep of gardens, heritage sites, forts, playgrounds and other public places,” said Dhole.

According to the MBMC, there are around six lakh trees in the twin-city. The civic administration is also eyeing the tag of ‘city of gardens’ by chalking out an elaborate roadmap to develop more open reserved spaces into gardens so as to give an ecofriendly look to traffic islands, medians and road dividers in the twin-city.

Currently, there are a total of 65 gardens and 12 playgrounds spread across all the six wards in the twin-city.