TOBA TEK SINGH: The district administration has restored Teku Park which was developed on railway station`s 30-kanal land under a lease.

The facility was developed in 2000 alongside the rail track by the then assistant commissioner, Naseem Sadiq, and was named Teku Park in the memory of Sikh leader Tek Singh who served the rail passengers for a long time by providing them drinking water in the 18th century as the subsoil water of the area was brackish. Historians say he would fetch water from Teku canal several kilometres away from the city.During the last 22 years the Municipal Committee could not take proper care of the park and its costly swings installed for children, gates and grassy grounds were ruined.

Recently citizens informed Deputy Commissioner Zahid Suhail that unkempt bushes provided a shelter to the criminals and addicts and that the jogging track for visitors and recreational facilities for children could be restored.

The DC deputed MC staf f to restore and renovate the park. An official said the park had almost been restored and the remaining work would be completed within a week af ter which it would be opened for the citizens.