Srinagar, Mar 24: As the Eid-ul-Fitr was celebrated with religious fervor, the Asia’s largest Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden, located on the foothills of Zabarwan Range, here, recorded a footfall of over 48000 visitors in the last three days of the festival.
The Tulip Garden was thrown open, almost ten days ahead compared to the previous year, with 18 lakh tulip bulbs this year attracting a large number of visitors.
Last year, the footfall of visitors surpassed all previous records as 8,55,125 lakh visitors visited the garden in 2025. The record was set in just a month-long period.
Director Floriculture, Kashmir, Mathoora Masoom told Rising Kashmir that over 73000 visitors have visited the garden since it was thrown open for the public on March 16 by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
She said that the figures include a small margin of 161 foreigners as well. “The footfall of visitors is increasing with each passing day. The number has gone up from 5000 visitors to above 10000-15000 visitors now,” she said, hoping for a further surge in footfall in the coming days.
Meanwhile, Assistant Floriculture Officer In-charge Tulip Garden Srinagar, Imran Ahmad, said that over 48000 visitors visited the garden in the last three days.
On the first day of Eid-ul-Fitr (March 21), over 13000 people, according to him, visited the garden while a footfall of over 19000 visitors was recorded on the second day of Eid (March 22).
He informed that the famous garden drew a total of 16000 visitors on March 23, considered as the third day of Eid-ul-Fitr.
The figures are, however, less compared to the previous Eid-ul-Fitr in 2025, when nearly 75,000 people visited the garden on the first two days of the festival.
A total of 18 lakh Tulip bulbs, besides one lakh spring flowers like daffodils, hyacinths, roses, etc., are attracting the visitors this year.
The Tulip Garden in the summer capital earned a spot in the World Book of Records (London) as Asia’s largest in 2023.
