Uttarakhand

“Firsts”: -

India’s first Forest Healing

India’s highest herbal park at Mana village
Centre in Ranikhet in Almora
in Chamoli district
district
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India’s Largest Open-Air Fernery at Uttarakhand’s first Palmetum and biggest one
Ranikhet, Almora district in North India in Haldwani in Nainital district
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India's first ‘grass conservatory’ at Ranikhet in India’s first glass floor suspension bridge
Almora district, Uttarakhand on river Ganga in Rishikesh (Uttarakhand)
to replace the Lakshman Jhula
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India’s first lichen park at Munsiyari in India’s first Snow Leopard Conservation Centre in
Pithoragarh district Uttarkashi
Total lichen species in the world – 20,000;
Total lichen species in the India – 2,714; out of
which over 600 are in Uttarakhand.
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India’s first museum on Ganga river at Chandi India’s longest single-lane motorable suspension
bridge (Dobra-Chanti bridge) on Tehri Lake.
Ghat, Haridwar
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India’s first moss garden at Kumaon’s Nainital India’s first pollinator park at Haldwani in
district Nainital district
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Suryadhar lake at Doiwala, Dehradun district Asan Conservation Reserve, Uttarakhand’s first
(inaugurated in November 2020) Ramsar site, on the banks of Yamuna river in
Garhwal region. Received Ramsar site tag in Oct
2020.
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Uttarakhand’s Summer Capital – Garsain (declared in Uttarakhand’s Winter Capital – Dehradun

March 2020)
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As per the ‘Status of

Tigers Co-predators
and Prey in India’
2020 report, Corbett
Tiger Reserve of
Uttarakhand has
recorded the highest
tiger population (at
231) amongst 50 tiger
reserves in India.
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State Flower – Brahma State Bird – Himalayan

State Tree - Buran
Kamal Molan

State butterfly - State animal - White- Uttarakhand State language -

Papilio bianor bellied musk deer Hindi
(Common Peacock)
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➢ Alaknanda River
➢ Bhagirathi River
➢ Bhilangna River
➢ Ganga River
➢ Yamuna River
➢ Mandakini River
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➢ Nainital
➢ Tehri Lake
➢ Bhimtal
➢ Satopanth Tal Lake
➢ Suryadhar lake
➢ Vasuki Tal Lake
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Baigul Dam Maneri Dam
Baur Dam Nanak Sagar Dam
Bhimtal Dam Ramganga Dam
Dhauliganga Dam Tehri Dam
Dhora Dam Tumaria Dam
Haripura Dam
Ichari Dam
Jamrani Dam
Koteshwar Dam
Lakhwar Dam
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Kumaon’s Aipan (traditional

chyura oil, art made on copper
special occasions) products

Munsyari Ringal craft (art of

rajma making items by
knitting bamboo Tejpatta
strands) -1st

Bhotia dann (a
Thulma (blankets
rug made by
spun from locally-
Bhotias, a
sourced fabric)
nomadic
community)
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Governor of
Uttarakhand –
Gurmit Singh
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