With the zoo shut for a year, authorities said a loss of Rs 5 crore has been incurred
MUMBAI: Almost a year after shutting its gates to visitors, Veermata Jijabai BhosaleUdyan and zoo, popularly known as Byculla zoo, is likely to start operations next week, from February 15.
It had restricted entry to visitors on March 15 last year amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
As the garden and zoo reopens, visitors will, for the first time, also get a glimpse of the two Royal Bengal tigers named Shakti and Karishma, who were brought from Siddharth Garden and Zoo in Aurangabad city last February and kept in quarantine. They were to be put up for public viewing on March 25, 2020 but the zoo restricted entry to public a week before. The zoo authorities have created a specialized underwater viewing facility for visitors to get a glimpse of the tigers.