bangalore cubbon park which has fast been losing its image as a prominent symbol of bangalore is set to be redeemed chief minister siddaramaiah has proposed to establish the cubbon park management authority cpma in his budget on friday the umbrella bodys mandate will be to manage the affairs of the park and transform it into a stateoftheart urban landmark cubbon park many experts feel is battling challenges posed by multiplicity of authorities involved in managing it besides the tendency of the citizenry to use it as a thoroughfare and bangalore has been feeling the need to restore the park including refurbishing existing buildings and adding a list of scheduled events like musical nights siddaramaiahs proposal is likely to provide more clarity in recreating the park and also make it a tourist attraction but cpma is not a novel idea the karnataka tourism vision group appointed by the government has been seeking such an authority for a while now the vision group in its recommendations submitted last month said the authority will help secure public spaces within the park it is suggested to set up an autonomous body with nominees from various stakeholders of the park such as horticulture kannada culture archaeology bal bhavan high court museums etc as well as representation from private sectorcivil society the recommendations said that cpma should get a master plan prepared through international bidding process to develop cubbon park as a stateoftheart urban park restoring all heritage buildings housed within and putting them to adaptive reuse as museums for example the vision group suggests that the cpma work on a selfsustainable model with initial or annual grant from the state government and private contributions and be built on principles like english heritage national trust in the uk this would also prove the guiding principle of ring fencing existing assets to maintain and improve them it says