Express News Service
SRINAGAR: With winter chill giving option to nice sunshine, Srinagar is witnessing an enormous influx of vacationers. A significant attraction in the summertime capital of Jammu and Kashmir is the Tulip Garden which has to date recorded 3.11 lakh footfalls within the 19 days because it was opened on March 23. Officials mentioned that is the very best footfall ever recorded within the backyard because it was inaugurated in 2007.
Assistant Floriculture officer Inam-ul-Rehman instructed this newspaper that round 3.11 lakh folks visited the backyard until Sunday night. This determine included 1.10 lakh vacationers.
Last yr, 2.25 lakh folks had visited the backyard earlier than it was closed because of the second wave of Covid-19 outbreak. The backyard remained closed in 2020 after the pandemic outbreak.
The backyard has 1.5 million tulips of 68 varieties and colors. It is unfold over 30 hectares and located on the foothills of Zabarwan vary. A vacationer Ajit Kumar mentioned the backyard supplied a “unique experience”.
“I am visiting the garden for the first time. No place is as beautiful as Kashmir and it is rightly called as ‘Paradise on Earth’,” he mentioned.
However, the rise in mercury is a explanation for concern for gardeners.
Over 100 gardeners and informal labourers are working extra time to make sure that the tulips proceed to bloom in view of dry climate and above-normal temperature. A gardener mentioned tulips want low temperature for survival.
“Since the temperature has increased, we have to irrigate the garden with care and without hurting the flower. We water the plants at night,” he mentioned.
‘Biggest Amarnath Yatra this year’
SRINAGAR: Union Secretary of Information and Broadcasting Apurva Chand on Monday mentioned this yr’s Amarnath Yatra can be the “biggest in history” and 6 to eight lakh are anticipated to carry out the annual pilgrimage to the three,880-metre-high cave shrine in south Kashmir.
The 43-day yatra would begin on June 30 and culminate on the Raksha Bandhan day on August 11. The official mentioned mandatory preparations have been put in place for the yatra.
