The GHMC Mayor Mohammed Majid Hussain, Commissioner Somesh Kumar and Special Commissioner Navin Mittal have congratulated the Urban Biodiversity team of GHMC for bagging 13 awards, including that of the overall championship, in the recently held annual garden festival which had been organized by the department of Horticulture.
The Mayor and Commissioner have instructed the Biodiversity wing to bag more prizes next year as the GHMC is committed to double the budget for the year 2014-15 for the initiation of various developmental activities with regards to parks and to creating more greenery in the twin cities.
Y Ramesh, Director, Urban Biodiversity, proclaimed that the GHMC had received 10 awards during 2012-13, has received 13 awards this year and will strive for more awards in the coming financial year.
These 13 awards were won in categories like "Theme Parks", "Landscape Gardens maintained by State Government & Central Government departments", "Colony Parks maintained GHMC", "Traffic Island and Podium Gardens" and "Overall Championship". (INN)