The eco-friendly amphitheater at CIDCO urban haat
Urban Haat is a permanent fair for crafts, food and cultural activities where artisans and craftsmen from all
over India will provide a panoramic view of the richness and diversity of handicraft and artifacts. In the
middle of the urban haat we are having an eco-friendly amphitheater having the seating capacity of 450
audiences with 30 ft. by 20 ft. semi-circle stage.
Since 2010 many cultural programs were organized in this
amphitheater. Eminent musicians like Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
(flutist), Jagjit Singh and Pandit Jasraj performed musical programs
in urban haat. Similarly celebrities from film world like Jackie
Shroff, Johnny leaver, Marathi, Bengali, Kerala, film directors,
actors and actress participated in many functions.
Schools and colleges of Navi Mumbai use to organize annual
college functions in our amphitheater. D. Y. Patil College,
Satyagraha College, Harmony School, Rotary Club, Lions Club
organized several dance and drama programs in our amphitheater.
Bengali associations, Malayali associations, Assam Cultural club
and Gujarati cultural club organized exclusive Bharatanatyam,
Kathakali, Mohiniyattam, kuchipudi, Lavani and Garba dances in
our amphitheater.
In addition to this NGO’s and associations of Navi Mumbai
organized drama festival Mindscape a workshop and seminar,
painting competitions, film festivals, orchestra in urban haat.
The eco-friendly atmosphere and the natural beauty of our
amphitheater in the middle of the forest is appreciated by almost
all the eminent artists from different parts of our country.
The CIDCO Urban Haat amphitheater is available on rent for any
NGO / Cultural Organizations for organizing cultural events from
9.00 am to 10.00 pm every day. The rent and other charges
including security deposit is Rs.13, 800 from which the security
amount Rs.5000 is refundable
For further details you can contact manger urban haat in his mobile number / email / Facebook / Twitter
which is +919495521169 / manager.urbanhaat@gmail.com / www.facebook.com/cidcourbanhaat /
www.twitter.com/CIDCO_UrbanHaat.
Fruit bearing tree plantation drive in CIDCO Urban Haat
The site for Urban Haat is unique and interesting as well. It is a small hill with a number
of fully grown trees. It is abutting the Belapur Railway station and is just 200m from the
busy Sion-Panvel Expressway.
All the fully grown tress has been preserved. A low built from is created to from an
interesting skyline. The design of structures seems to settle quietly under and amidst the
preserved foliage.
We made a nature trail path of 800 meter in
the middle of the thick forest which gives a
village look and in this forest more than 20
types of different birds like parrot, Kuku,
kingfisher, Woodpecker and sparrows have
their nest. In the morning and evening it is
very interesting to have a nature trail in the
forest area of urban haat.
Many trees are now fallen and there is
enough space for plantation of trees so in
order to attract more birds and making
nature trail more beautiful and interesting
we have done a plantation drive on 15th
July in CIDCO Urban Haat in which many
NGO’s and organizations and family
members of Navi Mumbai participated.
13 Rotary Club with the chairman planted
80 saplings like mangoes, black berry,
Jackfruit, Indian gooseberry, sweetsop,
zizphus mauritiana, syzygium cumini, Psidium
guajava, syzygium samarangense,
manilkara zapota, mimuspos elengi, ficus
glometra, azadirachta indica etc. They
planted 20 saplings with cancer patients in
urban haat on 21st July. Several retired
employees and present employees from
CIDCO also participated in this drive with
fruit bearing plants like Cashew nut,
Almond, Guava and Mango.
After reading the news in leading
newspapers several families approached
urban haat for tree plantation, with their
family members and children hence more
than 180 saplings of different variety were
planted in urban haat, during the month of
July from 15th August to 31st August 2017.
Along with this plantation drive we have
organized sapling preparation work shop,
visit of butterfly garden and nature trail for
students and corporate employees in which
more than 100 students visited urban haat
during the month and enjoyed.
Now we are proposing for nature trail and
butterfly every weekend from 7.30 am to
9.30 am in CIDCO urban haat. We will
provide guide and the expense will be
charged from the visitors.
Butterfly Garden and nature trail
We have developed 2 butterfly gardens in CIDCO
Urban Haat and three more gardens are under
process. In the butterfly garden we planted
accordingly to attract different butterflies. At present
more than 28 varieties of butterflies like, chocolate
pansy, common emigrant, common grass yellow,
common Mormon male and female, danaideggfly,
lemon pansy, danausgenutia, etc. are seen in the
morning and evening. Now regular nature trail and
butterfly garden visit is organized in the morning from
7.30 to 9.30 with the support and guide from lady bird
an NGO.
Similarly, we have developed a nature trail in the thick
forest of UH about 600 meter from the entrance giving
a good panoramic look of village road in the urban
city with lot of grownup tress and birds about 18
varieties of birds a seen in urban Haat like coppersmith
barbet, jungle mains, white throat kingfisher, red
vented bulbul, red whiskered bulbul, etc.
CIDCO URBAN HAAT CBD BELAPUR NAVI MUMBAI
Tentative Calendar of Event Proposed at CIDCO Urban Haat for the year 2017-18
from August 2017 to June 2018
Sr. No. Name of Mela Organizer Period No. of
Days
1 Shravan Mela CIDCO 01.08.2017 to 15.08.2017 15
2 Ganesh Utsav CIDCO 17.08.2017 to 03.09.2017 18
3 Dashera Mela CIDCO 08.09.2017 to 02.10.2017 25
4 Deep Mela CIDCO 06.10.2017 to 29.10.2017 24
5 Mathrubhumi Book Exhibition NGO 03.11.2017 to 12.11.2017 10
6 Art & Craft exhibition CIDCO 13.11.2017 to 22.11.2017 10
7 Ekta Exhibition YMCA 24.11.2017 to 26.11.2017 3
8 Gandhi Shilp Bazaar DCH 01.12.2017 to 10.12.2017 10
9 Winter Festival CIDCO 11.12.2017 to 19.12.2017 9
10 RBSM NGO 20.12.2017 to 23.12.2017 4
11 Spl. Handicraft Exhibition CIDCO/DCH 28.12.2017 to 08.01.2018 12
12 Sankrant Mela CIDCO 10.01.2018 to 24.01.2018 15
13 Craft Bazaar CIDCO/DCH 26.01.2018 to 04.02.2018 10
14 Kerala Trade Fair Govt. of Kerala 09.02.2018 to 18.02.2018 10
15 Khadi Festival KVIC 20.02.2018 to 04.03.2018 13
16 Spl. Handicraft Exhibition CIDCO/DCH 07.03.2018 to 18.03.2018 12
17 Vasant Mela CIDCO 21.03.2018 to 01.04.2018 12
18 Chaitra Mela CIDCO 02.04.2018 to 03.05.2018 32
19 Summer Festival CIDCO 15.05.2018 to 15.06.2018 32
Total 280
HANDI CRAFT EXHIBITIONS & SALES
