Jalavihar is a

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located in

Hyderabad Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...

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, (

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) within an area of about . Located beside Sanjeevaiah Park and along the

Hussain Sagar Hussain Sagar (alternatively referred to as Tank Bund; ) is a heart-shaped lake in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, built by Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah in 1562. It is spread across an area of and is fed by the Musi River (India), River Musi. A large mo ...

lake, the park was inaugurated on 20 May 2007.

Background

R. J. Rao, a

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, and a group of individuals funded the in a public-private partnership model with the local tourism department. The department sanctioned of land on Necklace Road abutting the

lake for this project. Although the land was allotted by the

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headed by N. Chandrababu Naidu in 2000, the work was stalled because of land encroachment and ownership issues. Further to this, a probe was initiated by the local government on the method of allocation of projects. India's

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gave the go ahead to the project in mid-2006 on the basis of sanction of the local pollution control board and the regional high court. Because of the profitability of public-private partnership model such as this one, the local government proposed to continue the trend in 2010.

Facilities

The

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, the largest in the country, can accommodate about 1,000 people at a time. The constructed area comprised only 10% of the total area of the park. Proper fencing was provided along the park to prevent littering around the Hussain Sagar lake. The park consists of two main zones – entertainment and party. The entertainment zone has

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, wave pool, dry rides, mini train and food courts. The party zone contains open lawns that can accommodate about 2,000 people.

References

External links

Jalavihar Photographs, 2013
{{Hyderabad topics Water parks in India 2007 establishments in Andhra Pradesh Amusement parks in Hyderabad, India Amusement parks opened in 2007