Overview
- Chief Minister Rekha Gupta laid the foundation stone for the Mukhmelpur oxygen park on Friday, May 22, 2026, announcing it as the first of the city’s planned oxygen parks.
- The project has an earmarked budget of ₹2 crore, with ₹1 crore sanctioned by the Forest Department and ₹1 crore drawn from the chief minister’s MLA discretionary local area fund.
- Officials say the three‑acre park will include walking tracks, large lawns, seating huts, a landscaped pond, energy‑efficient lighting, and a mix of shade and fruit‑bearing trees for recreation and local biodiversity.
- Gupta presented the park as part of a wider push to create 100 oxygen parks and to plant about 7 million saplings, and she pledged related local works such as covering a polluted drain and upgrading constituency services.
- The project is at the initiation stage with design and funding announced but no construction timeline, procurement plan, or implementation milestones published yet, meaning delivery will need coordination between the Forest Department, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and other local bodies.