nashik trees on the river view park near the asaram bapu bridge will have to be uprooted to construct the goda park the pet project of the maharastra navnirman sena chief raj thackeray the builder who constructed this natural jogging track in an attempt to save trees will be responsible for their transplantation the onekm stretch from the boat club near the asaram bapu bridge was developed as a river view park with a lawn and plantation on either side by a private company suyojit builders people often take strolls in the mornings and evenings with their families part of the goda park is situated here and the construction will be at the expense of most of the trees growing here there is a gate at the parks entrance and we want to construct one more at the centre of the jogging track five trees will have to be removed for this purpose near the river 53 trees will have to be transplanted for the goda park project a site engineer said there are in all 64 trees growing by the river bank and the opposite end are separated by a lush green lawn sources said that they were asked uproot the trees anant rajegaonkar who developed the riverfront park said we will be saving all the trees the ones with the broad stem will not be disturbed we will transplant trees with thin stems with help from experts box voices for the first time this park has upgraded the looks of godavari banks the corporation should follow the examples and create such parks all over the banks we commoners are just supposed to pay taxes but will the money ever be used for what we want democracy we want more of the green parks smita wankhede alternate healing therapist to maintain the beauty of nashik is the prime responsibility of every citizen goda park is a good idea but food court will spoil the beauty and will invite many health and hygiene issues if the food court is essential then the nmc should provide proper facility to check litter and unorganised food court shridhar vyawahare hr professional food court if maintained without disturbing nature is fine one can enjoy nature having coffee some norms have to be followed strictly if you want to enjoy this some things should be natural already a fast food joint has been opened there sachin bhattad architect the natural surroundings and the beautiful park have been tampered the trees should not be cut with the food court the place will become dirty and more unmarried couples will be seen here the food court and the toilet blocks are in the centre of the track families and college students used to come here maya jadhav housewife