GUJRAT: The Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) has launched a beautification drive for rehabilitation of parks in the city while walls of various public places along the GT Road will also be painted with portraits of popular personalities and heritage sites.

The city’s oldest public park, Inayat Park, is being rehabilitated and renovated with Rs1.5 million and the boundary walls being reconstructed. The wall had been damaged from two sides due to construction of a water tank in one of the lawns. The entire boundary wall was being reconstructed whereas the two main gates of the park would also be rebuilt. However, the metal frame installed on the boundary wall would be removed to make it more visible from outside.

Inayat Park had been established over four decades ago and named after the then deputy commissioner Inayatullah whose wife Attiya Inayatuulah is a former MNA.

TMA Administrator Farooq Rasheed told Dawn a fountain would also be installed whereas a gazebo in one of the lawns with sitting arrangement and a small restaurant under the roof of the water tank would also be built.

He said the TMA had allocated Rs5 million for the city’s beautification drive and most of the funds would be spent on rehabilitation of parks. The main wall of the general bus stand and walls on both sides of the railway underpass near Kathala Chenab along GT Road would be painted by students of the University of Gujrat.

The UoG Fine Arts Department would paint portraits of national heroes, renowned local figures as well as some cultural and historical places.

Published in Dawn, July 3rd , 2014