Facts & Details of our first Event VENUE - JP Park

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The expansive 85-acre Jayaprakash Narayan Bio-diversity Park was formally inaugurated on 19.03.2006 and made open to the public by the then Karnataka Chief Minister.
On the occasion, he said: "We have a Cubbon Park which has come down from the British, a Lalbagh that's come from Tipu Sultan. The JP Park, BMP's biggest park to date, must be made as good as Cubbon and Lalbagh."

The park is a breather for the entire city, particularly for those in Mathikere, Jalahalli and Yeshwantpur. The park boasts of two lakes which have already attracted migratory birds, a rock garden, Nakshatra vana (star groove), tennis court, jogging track, etc.
This is north-west Bangalore's answer to Cubbon Park and Lalbagh. Eighty-five acres of sylvan bio-diversity, green belts of landscaped gardens and a groove that has plants that subscribe to your sun sign.
The Jayaprakash Narayan Park (JP Park) that has come up at the junction of Jalahalli and Mathikere after decades of delay, has been fortuitously revamped to beget the title of BMP's largest park.

The park boasts of 20,000 varieties of plant species, 60,000 flowering plants and shrubs and 5,000 medicinal herbs.

There is a rock garden in the park modelled after the one in Almatti. A musical fountain and a Plant Nursery is also proposed inside the park.

The park has three grooves called Pavithra Vana, which will have mini grooves called Nakshatra vana, Rashi Vana and Navagraha Vana. Apparently, each star in the zodiac constellation has a particular plant/tree ascribed to it.

The Park has a 4.5-km jogging track, bamboo garden, palm garden, play area for kids and women's playground with dedicated shuttle and tennicoit courts.

There are also a few acres devoted to a football court, volleyball ground, kabaddi ground and a 1,000-seater amphitheatre. Main attractions in the park are the two water bodies of 15 and nine acres each.

The bigger lake has already attracted migratory birds like pond heron, coot hen, little cormorant, moore hen, pelicans etc. At present, the park is open to the public freely at present.

There's a separate parking area to accommodate 200 cars and 400 two-wheelers. And the entire park is a nosmoking zone.