Hudhud-ravaged Indira Gandhi Zoological Park in Visakhapatnam will be funded seven million dollars for restoration and development as a world-class international ecological park by the World Bank. Under the Andhra Pradesh Disaster Recovery Project, the bank in-principle has sanctioned 250 million dollars. The beach city zoo suffered very severe damage when winds reaching a speed of 250 km per hour blew after Cyclone Hudhud made its landfall near Kailasagiri hills close to the zoo in October 2014. The cyclone killed 11 animals, and some 180 birds and animals escaped from their damaged enclosures. The World Bank is set to loan $20 million (around Rs 135.5 crore). The amount is part of the $370 million (Rs 2,508 crore) Andhra Pradesh Disaster Recovery Project, for which the bank is providing assistance worth $250 million (Rs 1,694 crore) from 2015 to 2020. The project will focus on making the civil structures disaster-resilient, re-establishing lost ...
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