Green Park Visitor Gallery In Kanpur Drawing Good Crowds, More Facilities To Be Added
Kanpur, March 27 (TNA) The novel effort by the Kanpur administration to bring the memorable moments & glorious history of Green park stadium before Cricket lovers and sports lovers through the “Green Park Visitor Gallery”, has started yielding good results.
In the last one month (from February 19 to March 19), a total number of stands at 2243 of which 790 are students, 543 children and 910 adults. Other than above, 1372 persons have taken the pleasure of playing batting at “Virtual Pitch” in last one month, divisional commissioner Raj Shekhar informed on Monday.
The gallery has been established in association with the Kanpur Smart city and the Sports Department and inaugurated by CM Yogi Adityanath on December 9, 2022. It was opened for Public on February 19 by MP Satyadev Pachauri and chief secretary DS Mishra.
Kanpur smart city & Sports Department have planned to add more facilities to the visitor gallery in next 2 months including children adventure section & fun zone (Out side open area near Entry point of visitor gallery), 3D virtual cricket games and other adventure sports games (Through 3D Eye wearable devices).
The venture has a “self sustainable model” with special facilities like two display sections, an Audio Visual room, cricket cafe, souvenir shop, two virtual bowling and batting pitches and a multi-cuisine restaurant. Divisional Commissioner visited the Green park visitor gallery and took stock of the situation and reviewed the functioning on Monday.
Following the feedback from people, the Mandaliya Khel Protsahan Samiti, Kanpur smart city & Sports Department have planned to add more facilities to the visitor gallery in next 2 months including children adventure section & fun zone (Out side open area near Entry point of visitor gallery), 3D virtual cricket games and other adventure sports games (Through 3D Eye wearable devices).
It was also decided to install 3 to 4 large LEDs in Display section & also in the restaurant to show case to the public/ visitors the high lights of visitor gallery, projects of smart city, important government schemes and also important schemes of Sports Department.
The Commissioner also asked the O&M operator and also the DD Sports to double the number of visitors in coming months by taking necessary steps to increase the number of visitors through special attractions & use of Social media & other Platforms of Advertisements for the visitor Gallery.