By the end of this year, if all goes as planned, tourists visiting Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) will have the opportunity to once again enjoy the toy train ride inside the park. To facilitate this, SGNP authorities are investing Rs 43 crore. The mini toy train at SGNP suffered damage during cyclone Tauktae in May 2021 and has remained non-operational since then.

A forest department official said, “Around Rs 43 crore will be spent on the purchase of the toy train and the civil work related to the same. The toy train services might resume at the end of this year, and we are expecting an increase in the number of tourists visiting the park when the toy train starts.”