Rajkot to have a Lion Safari Park

Rajkot: A Lion Safari Park will be developed at a cost of Rs 10 crore across 25 hectares of land in Rajkot.

Rajkot Municipal Commissioner Amit Arora informed that the Lion Safari Park will be developed in 25 hectares of land including 8 hectares from Randarda nursery behind the existing zoo and 17 hectares on the front side of it. The District Inspector of Land Record office has started the land measurement and other primary procedures. A master plan for the Sarafi project will be made after the same.

The work to develop a Lion Safari park will start after the plan gets approval from the Central Zoo Authority, New Delhi. Lion Safari Park is an extension of the existing Pradhyuman Park zoo, informed the superintendent of Pradhyuman Park zoo RK Hirpara. The zoo has 15 lions at present including 5 males and 10 females. The zoo has 8 white tigers and 2 panthers.

One male and two female lions will be kept in the Lion Safari park, once it is ready. The visitors will be taken on a tour of Sarafi park in electric buses. DeshGujarat