panaji if the state tourism departments plan materializes one may soon have a whole new view upon entering the capital citya project has been conceptualized with a view to beautifying all entry points to panaji while also providing relief to pedestrians and decongesting the roads in the patto area the beautification project will also include a facelift to the bus stand at patto although panaji is a beautiful city entrances to it have been largely neglected the idea is to give people a good feeling when they enter the city tourism director swapnil naik saidwhat seems to be the highlight of panajis beautification project is the construction of skywalks in patto in keeping with its name askywalk is a dedicated walkway in the sky solely for the use of pedestriansthe tourism director said that such skywalks were noticed during a tourism campaign in tokyojapan closer to home such constructions have also been successful in reducing road congestion in mumbai citywe plan to have three skywalks in patto all of which will begin from the bus stand more specifically they will originate near the temple located in the bus stand premises and one will head towards the shramashakti bhavan here a pedestrian will have the option to either get back to the ground or continue on an extended branch of the skywalk towards dempo towers naik saidthe second skywalk will head from the bus stand over to the interstate bus stand near the mandovi bridge while the third skywalk will originate from the bus stand and pass over the ambedkar garden there will be an option for pedestrians to either descend outside the garden or continue walking on an extended branch of the skywalk over to the santa monica jetty the tourism director saidwe also plan on having welcome arches to panaji we could probably design the skywalks in such a way that they could resemble arches he addedalso on the anvil is the setting up of murals and a footpath all along the periphery of the ambedkar garden we also plan on beautifying the entry route from the vascomargao side here we intend on giving the road medians a facelift naik saidthe tourism director said that for implementation of the project the state would utilize a part of the funds earmarked by the central government during the last union budgetthe centre had earmarked 200 crore for goa during the last union budget we will use a small part of it approximately 20 crore for this project he said while adding as of now we cannot particularly comment on what type of beautification the bus stand is going to receive we are in the process of hiring a consultant to prepare a detailed project report dpr this dpr will be submitted to the state and to the centre for the necessary approvals through the department of planning