SRINAGAR: Visitors will now have to pay Rs 75 per person to enter Asia’s largest Tulip Garden as the government has revised the entry fees for all parks and gardens maintained by the Department of Floriculture.
An order issued by the Commissioner Secretary to the Government, Sheikh Fayaz Ahmad, states that sanction is hereby accorded to the revision of Entry Fees, Tickets of All Gardens and Parks being maintained by the Department of Floriculture, Gardens, and Parks.
According to the revised entry fees, adults visiting all parks and gardens (except Tulip Garden and Children’s Park Hazuri Bagh, Srinagar) will have to pay Rs 30 each, while children below 12 years of age will be charged Rs 15 per head.
Both children and their adult guardians will have to pay Rs 10 each. As per the revised entry fees, adults will have to pay Rs 75 each to enter Tulip Garden here, while Rs 30 has been fixed for children below 12 years of age.
Moreover, fees have also been revised for foreign nationals, including adults and 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 March 1, 2024. However, in the case of already outsourced parks and gardens, the revised rates shall be applicable from the date of allotment of a new contract or extension of the contract, as the case may be—(KNO)
