AMC to develope Kidzania type Kids City at Kankaria in Ahmedabad

AMC to develope Kidzania type Kids City at Kankaria in Ahmedabad
By our correspondent
Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat, 19 June, 2009





Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation(AMC) had decided to develop a ‘Kids City’ at Kankaria lake front. In first phase of the proposed city, the AMC will develop 10 children activities such as fire station, police station, bank, hospital, tax collection, public transportation and sports. Children size structures will be built for all these activities. Only children will run these activities in proposed Kids city.

AMC’s two officers have returned from a study tour to Kidzania edutainment park in Jakarta, Indonesia.

According to AMC officials “there are nine sections in Jakarta based Kidzania: Residential services, cultural, suburb, industrial, media, restaurant, retail and transportation. More than 50 activities such as fire station, police station, jail, tax service office, hospital, bank, farmacy, radio station, TV studio, public transport, airport etc. are carried out under these sections.”

“All facilities like food court, souvenir, photo, parents lounge, birth day party room, school group, private events, emergency room, information point, package storage, lost and found, missing parent and children, rest rooms, ATM are part of Kidzania,” AMC officials said.

Kidzania parks are active in Korea, Indonesia, USA, Mexico, Japan, Portugal and Chilly. One more Kidzania is coming up in Dubai. Ahmedabad’s Kids city will also be developed on similar idea.

About concept Kidzania

KIDZANIA is a unique EDUTAINMENT (Entertainment with Learning-Education) CENTER for children between 2 to 16 years old and their parents.

It is a kid-sized replica of a real city, with streets, buildings, retail and different vehicles going
around the City.

Children play adult roles and they learn how to be a doctor, a pilot, a construction
worker, a private detective, an archeologist, an F1 driver and over 100 other PROFESSIONS and
OCCUPATIONS.

There is a replica of the most representative buildings in a city such as Hospital, Supermarket,
Beauty Salon, Theatre, Industrial sites, and many more.

KIDZANIA is a SAFE, INTERACTIVE and HIGHLY EDUCATIONAL center where kids wear the uniform and perform the role they are playing. Led by Zupervisor (Trainer-Guide), they learn the complexities of the adult world, and learn the value of money, just as in real life.

In KIDZANIA, kids use KIDZOS (official currency of KIDZANIA).

Children learn to appreciate the value of money, by performing over 100 professions and
occupations and earn a salary. Their salaries earned, can then be used to buy goods and services available in KIDZANIA

Kidzania has it’s own economy, ‘Kidzo’ is the legal currency.

Each time one visits Kidzania, one will receive a 50 kidzos check. Once inside, one must
go to the bank, cash your check and use their money to buy goods and services such as:
rent car, get a hair-do at the beauty salon, or shop at Kidzania Department Store, for
instance.

Kidzos are not for sale with real money, if one spends all their kidzos or iwants to earn
more, one must get a job and work to provide a product or service such as firefighter,
dentist, hairdresser, or construction worker, or choose among many different
professions.

At every pavilions or activity one may spend or earn kidzos. For example: at the Fire
Station one can earn money, while at the Kidzania Department Store one can spend
them. However, there are lots of establishments where one can do both of things, at the
Hospital, for instance, one can be a doctor and earn money or be a patient and pay to
get medical attention.

Consumer goods and product prices are different depending of the pavilion or the
activity and they can change depending on the popularity of the activity compared with
others. If one wants to save Kidzos and manage your credit balance, one can open a
savings account at the bank.