Bhubaneswar: With a view to making the Capital city child friendly, Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) have decided to open a special park or sensory park for children with special needs.
The BSCL has floated the tender for the proposed sensory park at Sahid Nagar and is planning to set up the park on around 0.4 acre land at an estimated cost of Rs 1 crore.
According to officials, the project designed by Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA), through its Bhubaneswar Urban Knowledge Centre (BUKC), will have accessibility features such as ramps, sand pits and rubber flooring to prevent chances of injuries to children.
In fact, the park will also have Braille wall and sound wall along with reflexology path for visually challenged children.
“All the play equipment in this park has been designed as per the requirement of differently-abled children. Specially designed swings including bucket swings, wheel chair swings are very safe for our special kids,” a BMC official said.
Interestingly, the corporation has decided to provide a musical touch to the park with several sound equipment like drums, musical poles etc. Besides these new-age interventions, officials confirmed that the Sensory Park will also have the usual walking paths, ornamental plants, sitting and recreation space.
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