Licences of 39 marriage gardens (“Vatika”) were temporarily suspended by Municipal Corporation after finding irregularities with the gardens. A notice has been issued by the municipal corporation against the errant gardens.

Municipal Corporation in its notice highlighted the various short-comings that the gardens currently had with respect to the registration requirements of a marriage garden. As per the notice, the licences will be restored for the gardens that overcome the shortcomings and comply with the requirements. The ones that are not able to comply within 15 days will have their licenses revoked.

City has a total of 53 registered marriage gardens of which only 14 are fully compliant.

Most of the gardens identified do not have parking facilities. Some that have parking do not have adequate arrangements. Second major shortcoming identified is not having an NOC from the Fire department.

List of gardens notified are as follows: Field Club, Marriage Garden Samor – A & B,  Krishna Vatika, Ram Vatika, Lake Garden Vatika, Rani Village, Celebration, Pava Vihar, Rajdeep Garden, Ashwin Vatika, Arihant Vatika, Fateh Bagh, Vinayak, Tulsi Vatika, Sanwaliya Garden, Moorthi poojak Sangh Ayad, Nandan Vatika, Lal Bagh, Ma Padmawati, Ashish Vatika, Raj Ratan Garden, Garden Vani, Gorbandh Vatika, Nand Vatika, Vinayak Maneria, Savina Vatika, Athithi Garden, Shreeji Vatika, Valley view garden, Sejal Vatika, Umrao, Abhay Bagh, Mangal Shree Vatika, Bharat Vatika, Pushp Vatika, Vaju Shri Vatika, Vrindavan Vatika and Laxman Vatika