Floriculture dept revises entry fee for all parks, gardens

Rs 75 fixed for adults to enter Tulip Garden Sgr

Raja Syed Rather

Srinagar, Feb 17 (KNO): The visitors will have to pay Rs 75 per head to enter into Asia’s largest Tulip Garden as the government has revised the entry fee of all parks and gardens being maintained by the Department of Floriculture.

As per an order issued by the Commissioner Secretary to the Government, Sheikh Fayaz Ahmad, a copy of which lies with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), reads that sanction is hereby accorded to the revision of Entry Fee/Tickets of All Gardens and Parks being maintained by the Department of Floriculture, Gardens and Parks.

As per the revised entry fee, adults visiting all parks and gardens (except Tulip Garden and Children Park Hazuri Bagh, Srinagar) will have to pay Rs 30 each while the children below 12 years of age will have to pay Rs 15 per head.

Both children as well as their adult guardians will have to pay Rs 10 each. AS per the revised entry fee, the adults will have to pay Rs 75 each to enter into Tulip garden here while Rs 30 has been fixed for the children below 12 years of age.

Moreover, the fee has also been revised for the foreign nationals including adults as well as the children, who will have to pay Rs 200 each for Tulip garden.

In other parks, they will now have to pay Rs 100 each.

According to the order, the revised rates shall be applicable from 01-March 01, 2024, however in case of already outsourced parks and gardens, the revised rates shall be applicable from the date of allotment of new contract or extension of the contract as the case may be—(KNO)