Save Nainital Mallroad – Online Petition Please sign a petition on Change.org to urge the Uttarakhand Chief Minister to save the Raj-era lower Mall Road of Nainital, Uttarakhand. Shri Trivendra Singh Rawat Honourable Chief Minister of Uttarakhand In reference to – > The recent landslip on the lower mall road. > Consistent drop in water
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‘Nainital Houseful’ banners greet tourists with vehicles in Uttarakhand hill station. Put up by the Nainital police, the banners in Hindi request the tourists not to enter the hill station with their vehicles as all the parking lots are full. Instead of “Welcome to Nainital”, the approach roads to this tourist town are now sporting
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In giving life to Nainital, its lifeline is dying. Water retention in Naini Lake is at an all time low even as construction debris, pollutants and solid waste is choking the reservoir’s bed The Naini Lake is dying. The lifeline of tourist town of Nainital is choking to death. Encroachments, construction debris, siltation, dumping of
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BAREFOOT WALK TO SAVE NAINITAL 3RD JUNE 6:00 PM, From Gandhi Ji Statue, Tallital to Pt. GB Pant Statue, Mallital Silent walk. No slogans. Only placards. There was a time, before the Raj discovered Naini Tal, the town and lake was considered holy and so revered that people would take off their shoes before
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Soon after Face book founder Mark Zuckerberg’s revelation in an interaction with PM Modi in the US that he had visited an Indian temple on the advice of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the temple in question, Kainchi Dham in Nainital district, has seen renewed interest among devotees who are visiting the place to seek the
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The recent catastrophe which struck Naini Tal was less due to nature,but more owing to unplanned development with the tacit support of the individuals with vested interest. In the prevailing situation it is necessary that Naini Tal should be declared an Eco-Sensitive Zone like Mount Abu, Matheran, Mahbaleshwar and Panchgani The Ministry of Environment and
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Secret Nainital -The Jewel of Jewels in the Crown Here is a piece of the secret history of Nainital that is known only to a few Nainital insiders and is probably not published elsewhere (except some of it in my novel – Nude besides the Lake). During the British Colonial period, as the British Empire
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