Coimbatore Corporation will renovate the VOC Park, and the Senior Citizens’ Park with the assistance from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.
Mayor P. Rajkumar, Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan, and TNAU Vice-Chancellor K. Ramasamy inspected the places on Friday.
Mr. Rajkumar said that the visit followed a resolution passed by the corporation to renovate the parks.
The VOC Park was the face of Coimbatore, for which the civic body wanted the best of facilities. As it was also the most-visited entertainment spot of citizens, the corporation wanted to provide a good experience to them.
The corporation would look at improving the toy train, he added.
Mr. Ramasamy said that the university would prepare a project report for improving the two parks with the experts from the Floriculture Department.
Though the civic body had set no deadline, the university would submit the report at the earliest.
Floriculture experts M. Kannan and C. Subash said that the idea was to go in for flowering plants, trees in the VOC Park, and aromatic and herbal plants in the Senior Citizens’ Park.
The challenge would be to grow the plants under tree shades.
To improve the landscaping, the corporation had sought the assistance of the Architecture Department of Karpagam University.
