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Gurgaon: The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) and the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) are jointly working on setting up a second biodiversity park in the city, in Sikanderpur, said officials privy to the matter on Monday.
GMDA officials said that the establishment of the park is part of a larger project of restoring a natural pond in the Sikanderpur area that used to exist till 1976.
The new park, once constructed, will act as a catchment area for rainwater and will prevent south Gurugram from floods every monsoon season.
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Gurgaon: The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) and the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) are jointly working on setting up a second biodiversity park in the city, in Sikanderpur, said officials privy to the matter on Monday.
GMDA officials said that the establishment of the park is part of a larger project of restoring a natural pond in the Sikanderpur area that used to exist till 1976.
The new park, once constructed, will act as a catchment area for rainwater and will prevent south Gurugram from floods every monsoon season.
As per MCG officials, around 3,500 illegal shanties have been removed from Sikanderpur during multiple demolition drives in July and August this year.
Around 300 acres of encroached MCG land has also reclaimed in the process.
The new biodiversity park would come up on 150-200 acres of this reclaimed land, said GMDA officials.
The MCG has already started fencing the reclaimed land to prevent future encroachment.