Patna:
Use of plastic bags inside Sanjay Gandhi Zoological park in Patna would be banned from June 5 to make the place a eco-friendly one, a high level meeting chaired by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi decided today.
Visitors can buy eco-friendly bags at the counter at the zoo, where efforts would be made to attract more tourists, official sources said.
Mr Sushil Modi said under the exchange programme with Assam, Bhuabneswar and Tripura zoos, a couple of chimpanzees would be brought from Nandan Kanan zoo in exchange of a giraffe after the the present sweltering heat conditions improve.
Besides, three fountains would be made operational in the old lake of the zoo within a month and ten new boards would be purchased within a month, Mr Sushil Modi said adding the number of chairs would also be increased and an attractive brochure would be prepared for visitors to help them know about the animals in the zoo in Patna.
It was also decided at the meeting to constitute rescue teams to protect people from wild animals which move out of the forest area.
The state forest and environment department principal secretary Dipak Kumar Singh, principal chief forest conservator B A Khan and chief life warden D K Shukla also attended the meeting.