Redeveloped Kunnara Park remains out of bounds for visitors
The HinduThe Kunnara Park on Vyttila-Pettah Road has not been opened to the public, around a year after Kochi Metro Rail Limited completed its redevelopment. The inordinate delay resulted in a dozen members of the Opposition in the Kochi Corporation Council, led by Opposition Leader Antony Kureethara recently doing a people’s inauguration of the renovated park. “KMRL is reluctant to return the park to the Corporation, although we made it clear that we had the wherewithal to maintain the park by entering into an annual maintenance contract with a competent agency,” said Sunitha Dixon, the chairperson of the civic body’s Works Standing Committee and the councillor who represents Vyttila division. Mayor M. Anilkumar said Kunnara Park ought to be opened to the public even without a formal inauguration. “The civic agency is against the concept of having too many kiosks and Metro sources said they were awaiting a consensus with the Corporation on maintaining the park, since KMRL invested heavily in its redevelopment as part of its non-motorised transport initiatives.
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