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Alcot Gardens, Rajahmundry

Alcot Gardens is a place of leisure and recreation that is named after Mr. Alcot who headed the Divya Gyana Samaj. Regular meetings of the Samaj were conducted on the very same site. It is popular now as a picnic spot for tourists and natives.

Annie Besant is known to have visited this spot twice, when the foundation of Divya Gyana Samaj was being laid at Alcot Gardens and also during the inauguration of the same. Alcot Gardens has seen many great men and women debating and forming plans for reforming the society they lived in.

It has been the birthplace for many radical ideals and schools of thought. It lies on the main road connecting Innespeta with Cotton Peta.