The Beautiful Parks in the Panaji City

Since summer holidays are on the block, a large number of children like spending their time playing, learning new games, and making new friends in public parks. And with the introduction of good amenities and better maintenance facilities, the park culture has been revived.

The capital city consists of two major parks Campal, while the other is Caranzalem. Both the parks have a sea side view, which gives it an even more beautiful look.

The Campal Park is a very famous children park, in Panaji. The specialty of this park is that it’s one of the well known picnic spots and the uniqueness about this park is that it offers the facility of boat ride. Everyday this park is visited by a huge number of locals.

Agnelo Rosario, 35, from Vasco, who came to this park with his 5 year old daughter, said “It’s been a really long time, since I last visited this place. And as compared to its first appearance, I feel it’s very much well maintained now. It’s quite neat and clean. And I feel it’s a very safe environment for children.

Leandro Pereira, 8, from Anjuna, a student of Spring Valley high school, likes coming to this park because he loves these boat rides a lot.

Pereira said, “I regularly come here with my family. One of the biggest reasons, for visiting this place is the boat ride. It’s the best thing about this park. I really enjoy these boat rides a lot.”

Richard D’souza, Chief of Forest Department said “Campal comes under my department, and I see to that whichever parks and gardens are under me, they be very well maintained. We are trying our level best to provide excellent facilities to the people”

“The children come quite frequently to play over here; the boating facility has given a boost to the number of people visiting this place. But however it isn’t acceptable, when adults go on these boat rides.” said D’souza.

The Park in Caranzalem is too, one of the famous parks in the city, which is situated away from the hustle and bustle of the capital city. It’s a nice recreational place for children and elderly alike. In the evenings, the lane besides the park is packed with a number of cars parked along the lane.

Kalash Chimulkar , 20, from Caranzalem Kerant, a photographer said, “I like visiting this place because of it’s natural view and it’s scenic beauty, which is quite mesmerizing and eye pleasing. I like taking walks around this place. The lawn over is very well maintained and quiet clean.”

Daby Fernandes, 20, a student from Moira too had a similar approach. She loved this place because it’s very well maintained but at times she doesn’t like the noisy environment from the children.

She said “We have been visiting this place, since a very long time. I feel it’s really well maintained. We love the sunset view over here, but in the evening since there are a large number of children, it becomes a really noisy environment. But I do love coming over here with my family, especially on weekends.”

CCP (Corporation of the city of Panaji) is in charge of the Caranzalem Park. Surendra Furtado, the Mayor of Panaji said, “Caranzalem is one of the biggest parks in Goa. It has a beach side view. The speciality about this park is the lane that connects it to the Miramar beach. And often people from different places like Taleigao, Panaji, Caranzalem, on weekends, there will be people from Porvorim also visiting this place.”

Regarding the wear and tears of the equipments, Furtado assured that in another one and half years, the worn out equipments will be replaced and the work of the extension of the park too will be completed.

Furtado further added, “It’s has been almost five years, that this park has been used by the people, so there are chances of wear and tear, with regard to its equipments. However in approximately one and half years we are planning to complete the extension work of the park, which was withheld and also we are planning to replace the worn out equipments of the park.”