May Day Park — Attraction in Zone 5 Royapuram

A vast park in the centre of city on Anna Salai. It has a play area for children and a Yoga shed. It also has lot of plants grown under Myawaki method. Already those trees are grown very well and certainly in another few years they are going to grow well and provide lot of green cover and more oxygen. That is a welcome move by GCC. Free wifi is available that is a great help. Lot of people are just sleeping idle in day time in the various benches. They should be discouraged... The park authorities have kept an arrangement to keep some books for the use of the park visitors. But that is not maintained properly and gives a real...

The park covers about 14.5 acres (5.9 hectares) and was opened to the public on 13 September 1950 by the then Minister of Agriculture, A. B. Shetty. The park is used to hold public meetings during the May Day celebrations when rallies are conducted from the park. The park is divided into two portions. There are facilities for cricket, football, volleyball and badminton on the eastern and western sides of the park.

The park has been adopted and maintained by...

Park is clean and tidy but not enough lights during nights especially from 6pm to 8pm. Boys play cricket and other sports without any consideration to people who walk around. Many pregnant women and elderly people refrain from taking a walk around the park fearing that they might be hit by the hard balls with which the boys play. Not enough security personnel for a park of this size. Couple of more security people would help in keeping the park’s...