The Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) in collaboration with NGO NAGAR and Save Ranibaug Basis Monday launched a cell software which is able to work as a digital listing to those that are visiting the Byculla Zoo or Ranibaug.
The app, which is offered in each android and iOS platforms, is known as the “Mumbai Botanical Backyard and Zoo”.
The cell app is split into a number of sections comprising Animal Enclosures, Heritage Monuments, Facilities, Theme Gardens and Biodiversity, amongst different sections.
Ranibaug is Mumbai’s solely heritage backyard which homes a number of heritage constructions like Pyaas (Ingesting water fountain), Bandstand, Solar Dial and Frere Temple.
Consequently residents can click on beneath the heritage part and choose the monument they’d wish to study, following which guests will have the ability to discover all info with reference to the historical past and significance of the construction.
One of many key takeaways behind this software is a bit that provides info of a whole lot of species of timber and crops positioned inside the periphery of the backyard. For instance, if a customer clicks on the Baobab Tree part, he would get info associated to the tree’s historical past in addition to their scientific utilization.
The app was unveiled by Dr. Sanjay Tripathi, director of Byculla Zoo, DM Sukhtankar, retired IAS officer who additionally served because the municipal commissioner of Mumbai and chief secretary of Maharashtra and Pheroza Godrej, conversationalist and artwork historian.
Talking on the inaugural occasion, Dr. Tripathi mentioned that previously eight years the tree rely inside Ranibaug has seen a considerable enhance.
“The information of timber that’s out there within the app is until 2016, following which we took up renovation and upgradation of the zoo. Throughout this course of not a single tree was lower and quite the opposite we had been capable of enhance the tree rely by planting not less than 2,000 completely different species of timber at numerous locations within the backyard,” Tripathi mentioned.
“The tree knowledge is being additional up to date and might be included within the app with the most recent rely,” he added. Retired IAS officer DM Sukhtankar mentioned that this software will function a digital catalogue for the zoo which is able to make a number of options of the backyard accessible to the frequent folks.
“The first goal is to maintain the backyard preserved, this software will present folks with ease of entry and navigation throughout the big open area,” Sukhtankar mentioned.
Ranibaug, at current, homes 4,000 species of timber in addition to 256 species of dwelling and microorganisms. All the open area is linked via a 4-km pathway traversing via a number of sections of the backyard.
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