Kolkata, July 21 -- Morning walkers at Central Park in Salt Lake will no longer have to pay the Rs 10 daily entry fee, with the West Bengal Forest Development Corporation Limited (WBFDCL) scrapping the charge.
The WBFDCL's Green Projects Wing issued a notification that read visitors entering the park between 5 am and 7 am would not be charged the daily entry fee with effect from July 19 until further orders.
The Rs 50 entry fee for general visitors entering the park between 10 am and 5 pm remains unchanged.
The state's health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee who is also the MLA of Bidhannnagar said the government has delivered on its commitment to waive the fee for morning walkers. In a post on social media, he said the decision was intended...