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DEPUTY CHIEF MINISTER INAUGURATES 29TH ‘GARDEN TOURISM FESTIVAL’ IN THE CAPITAL , 19th February 2016

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  • DEPUTY CHIEF MINISTER INAUGURATES 29TH ‘GARDEN TOURISM FESTIVAL’ IN THE CAPITAL
  • SHRI MANISH SISODIA RELEASES SOUVENIR WITH DETAILS OF THE FESTIVAL AND DETAILS OF THE SEASONAL FLOWERS
  • THOUSAND KINDS OF FLOWERS AND HUNDRED KINDS OF BONSAI, HANGINGS PLANTS AND CLIMBERS ADDED TO THE GLORY OF THE FESTIVAL
  • FLOWER–FLOWER EVERYWHERE IN GARDEN OF FIVE SENSES
  • SWEET FRAGRANCE & AROMA OF NATURE ENHANCED THE GLORY TO THE VENUE OF THE EVENT

New Delhi 19/02/2016

Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Shri Manish Sisodia inaugurated the 29th three days garden tourism festival showing glimpse of Delhi’s Horticultural verities at the garden of five senses at Said-ul-Ajaib in capital today. This traditional festival has been organized for the last 28 years in the spring season every year. Earlier Delhi Tourism has organized this festival of flowers at different places in the capital such as Talkatora Garden, India Gate Lawns, etc. The underlying theme of this year festival is “Garden for Environment & Health”. Garden of five senses was filled with fragrance and aroma of nature, thousands of blooming flowers, hundred kinds of bougainvilleas and hundred kinds of bonsai plants were seen adding to beauty to the nature.

Shri Sisodia released a beautiful souvenir with details of the festival of the seasonal flowers on this occasion. Minister of tourism, Govt. of Delhi, Shri Kapil Mishra, Secretary Tourism and Chairman(DTTDC), Shri Keshav Chandra, M. D. tourism, Smt. Saumiya Gupta, General Manager of tourism, Shri Ravi Dadhich and a number of experts of horticulture were present on this occasion.
Inaugurating the festival Shri Sisodia said that the practice of gardening plays a pivotal role in enhancing relationship among communities. He said that welfare societies, resident welfare associations must visit the garden tourism festival and take up the subject in a more systemic way to better the standards of living. He said that gardening is a simple activity which endows greater levels of satisfaction. This would be beneficial not only for the self but also for the environment as a whole.

Shri Sisodia stressed upon the need for hosting more festivals alike and at a much larger scale in order to set examples for a sustainable urbanised city.

The 20 acre venue for Garden of Five Senses is a spectacular and worth seeing place for public leisure and which has more than 325 species of plants. These varieties range from commonly available to exotic ones. Some of the attractions of the serene place include court of palm, court of cactii, herbal garden, tree museum, topiary garden, Zen garden, aromatic garden and butterfly zone. Number of sculptures and murals have also been set up to embellish the place.


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