Now enjoy Kerala rainforests in Mahbubnagar

Mahbubnagar: With an aim to create an evergreen rainforest atmosphere at Mayuri Harita Vanam Park in Mahbubnagar, District Collector Ronald Rose on Thursday inaugurated the artificially created waterfalls and opened an area of eight-and-a-half acres of land planted with deciduous evergreen rainforest trees. The entire project area has been installed with eight water guns that sprinkle water creating artificial rainfall like atmosphere in the region. 

This kind of creation of an artificial rainforest area is first of its kind experiment in Telangana replicating the regions of rainforest areas in Kerala and North-eastern region. While informing about the launch during a press conference, the District Collector said that they have handed over the project to ‘Heart fullness Organization’.

“The entire eight-and-a-half acres of area has been handed over to the Heart fullness Organisation, wherein it is bestowed with the responsibility of installing water guns to create natural rainfall atmosphere artificially mimicking the environments of evergreen rainforest regions. For this, perennially evergreen trees are being planted in the Mayuri Haritha Vanam park,” informed the District Collector.

With the creation of evergreen forest region, this will enable the Mayuri region to have a rain forest atmosphere even in summer season. For visitors and tourists to enjoy this unique rainforest environs in Mayuri, the park authorities have created three slots to allow them in a day between 1-2 pm, 2-3pm and 3-4pm. The region has a temperature difference of 4-5 degrees and it will be a wonderful experience for the visitors. 

The District Collector said that this forest region will be fully developed into a full-fledged rain forest in the next 2-3 years where in the entire region will be full of tall ever green trees. It is also said that these trees in turn will automatically create a permanent rainforest region in the area.

The Collector further informed that the entire rain forest region was also built with five ponds and an artificial waterfall, wherein the surface water that comes from the waterfall will fill the ponds and in turn the same water will be recycled to recreate the waterfall. 

The authorities have also established 50 tents in the area for visitors to camp. The authorities also provide advance booking facilities for the interested customers who wish to spend their time at the park.