Uttarakhand Develops ‘Green’ Ramayana Park – Free PDF Download

QUESTION FOR YOU ALL

• Which of the following National Parks is not in Uttarakhand?
• Nanda Devi National Park
• Jim Corbett National Park
• Govind Pashu Vihar National Park
• Great Himalayan National Park

UTTARAKHAND

• It is often referred to as the “Devabhumi”
• The state is divided into two divisions, Garhwal and Kumaon, with a total of 13 districts.
• The winter capital of Uttarakhand is Dehradun, the largest city of the state, which is a rail head. Gairsain, a town in Chamoli district is the summer capital of Uttarakhand.

‘GREEN’ RAMAYANA PARK

• Uttarakhand chief conservator of forests (research wing) Sanjiv Chaturvedi said Green Ramayana Park, which took over six months to develop in Kumaon’sHaldwani area, is the first of its kind thematic project touching the little-explored aspect of Ramayana, especially in the context of the flora mentioned in it and associated with the journey of Lord Rama across four main forest types in India.

HALDWANI BIODIVERSITY PARK

SIGNIFICANCE

• During Lord Rama’s journey from Ayodhyato Sri Lanka, he came across four types of forests in the Indian subcontinent including Chitrakoot(tropical deciduous), Dandakarnanya(tropical deciduous), Panchavati(tropical dry deciduous) and Kishkindha(dry and moist deciduous). Ashok Vatika(evergreen) is associated with Sita while Dronagiri(alpine forest) is associated with Lord Hanuman
• Experts found that around 90 percent of the 139 species that have been mentioned in Ramayana are still found in the areas originally mentioned in the religious manuscript.

PLANT SPECIES

• Their scientific names and the precise number of ‘shloka’ (hymn) wherein the plant species have been mentioned have also been mentioned

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