Data procured from the civic body shows that while 28.59 lakh visitors arrived at the zoo between the financial year 2022 - 2023, over 28.97 lakh people poured in to the zoo in the financial year 2023 - 2024.
According to senior officials, the city’s sole botanical garden-zoo has seen an uptick in visitors since the past two years owing to the launch of its ambitious revamp project.
The deceased child was a resident of a slum in the Bhaskar Nagar area of Kalwa which was inundated because of heavy showers, he purportedly got swept away due to a strong water current.