Amusement parks remain open in Kolkata despite advisories to avoid public gathering

Amid growing coronavirus scare some amusement parks in city continue to remain open despite government visories against public garing.

Amusement parks such as Nicco Park, water me park Aquatica, Millennium Park on banks of river Hooghly, Eco Park in Rajarhat are still open though schools, educational institutions have been closed and visories issued to avoid garings.

Though se places are open even w, coronavirus scare has brought down footfall considerably. Till w re has been decision on keeping Eco Park closed for visitors, CMD of West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd, Debashis Sen, said. So far parks mand by government have been closed and visories have been issued for doing so, a senior official of Nicco Park said. refore re is plan to shut down park. But we are closing early, official said.

However, park is taking all possible measures such as rmal screening before allowing entry. We are offering hand sanitisers to visitors and cleaning rides and food courts properly, he said. An official of Aquatica said water me park will remain open. A senior minister of West Bengal government when contacted said that state government would warn authorities of amusement parks, who are keeping m open despite requests to shut m to contain outbreak.

He said that some parks such as Eco Park and Elliot Park have been kept open only for morning walkers. A few parks where people go for morning walks have been kept open," minister told PTI. But if some amusement parks are still operational we will warn m first, and even if y dont pay heed to our directive, we will look into options of taking action against m, he said.

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