Lutyens’ zone to bloom with six lakh tulips as NDMC plans major plantation drive
NEW DELHI: Next spring, the Lutyens’ zone will don tulips all around. The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has planned to turn the New Delhi area into a tulip town. The authority has planned to plant close to 6 lakh tulip bulbs in this zone.
The preparation will begin this year with the plantation of about 3.25 lakh tulips in different areas, including Shanti Path, Akbar Road, Nyay Marg, and Chanakyapuri.
NDMC Vice Chairperson Kuljit Singh Chahal said a nursery has been built in Lodi Garden, where tulips are being developed in a native environment.
“Twenty thousand tulips are being developed in this nursery. It is expected that 18 thousand tulips will be ready for sapling by the end of December. Apart from this, NDMC is buying 5.5 lakh tulip bulbs this time.
Out of this, 3.25 lakh bulbs will be installed in the NDMC area. There is a plan to install 80 to 90 thousand tulip bulbs in a 3-km long stretch near Shanti Path. Akbar Road, India Gate, Nyay Marg,” he said.
“Two lakh will be given to the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) while 25 thousand tulip bulbs will be given to MCD so that they can be planted in some important places in their area,” he added.
Out of the money spent on buying tulips, DDA will pay the price of 2 lakh tulips. MCD will bear the cost of the remaining 25 thousand tulips.
An exhibition has also been planned to showcase the homegrown tulips being developed at Lodhi Garden nursery.
“The purpose is that when tulips bloom,Delhi should look like a tulip city,” Chahl remarked.