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These plants will be shifted inside the Race Course ground. So, to give the city a new look, new plants will be placed at the dividers. Rajkot: The ring road around the Race Course ground Rajkot city’s favourite hangout place , is set to get a major makeover after nearly a decade.The 2,500-metre ring road around the Race Course ground connects many part of the city like Airport Road, Kalavad Road, Raiya Road, Jamnagar Road, Para Bazar, Yagnik Road and Jubeli Garden.Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) has come out with the beautification plan of the ring road and claims that the project will be a model for other municipal corporations.The entire work will be carried out on public-private partnership (PPP) model. The firm entrusted with the beautification work will pay a premium of Rs 2.51 lakh per annum to RMC, which will be increased by 10% every year.Currently, there are 1,600 plants in earthen pots on the divider along the ring road. New, decorative dividers will be constructed on the road which will be 1.2-metre wide and one metre in height.RMC city engineer traffic and transport department, K S Gohel said, “The current pots with plants are more than 10 years old and some of them are damaged..