Floravale Bhimtal : Spring in Autumn

Floravale was established in the year 2000 with the Motto of supplying “spring in autumn.” The major speciality of Floravale is to supply flowering plants to plains during autumn season.

Floravale is situated in the industrial valley of Bhimtal in Uttarakhand. Bhimtal is famous for it’s scenic beauty with the charm of a huge lake. Cooler climate of hills enables Floravale to supply some very exotic flowering plants like cyclamen, primula, ranunculus and fuchsia which cannot be grown successfully in the plains.

Uttarakhand is actively promoting floriculture. Concept of Floravale is a bit different from floriculture as it supplies potted ornamental plants. Besides these – seedlings of flowering plants alongwith some foliage plants are produced with state of the art technology in plug trays. A polyhouse of 12,000 sq ft is utilized at it’s full capacity for growing seedlings and flowering pots. Culinary herbs, which are making their place in various in India, are also grown and supplied to metropolitan cities.

Floravale has generated employment for local youth and has come forward as an exemplary organization in it’s short period of existence. Today the supplies from Floravale cover almost all of North India.

Contact Details :
Floravale
F 21-22 Industrial Area
Bhimtal – 263136
Distt. Nainital, Uttarakhand
Ph # (05942) 247782, 9412085782
Email : akhileshtyagi@rediffmail.com

Story Source :
Kumaon ‘Home of the Gods’
ISBN : 81 - 87592 – 09 - 5
Publisher : Nest & Wings

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Water Confirmed on Moon!

India's first moon mission Chandrayaan 1 has found evidence of water on the surface of the moon.

"The moon has distinct signatures of water. The evidence of water molecules on the surface of the moon was found by the moon mineralogy mapper (M3) of the US based NASA onboard Chandrayaan 1," M3 principal investigator Carle Pieters said in a paper published in the journal Science. M3 is one of the 11 scientific instruments onboard the lunar spacecraft that was launched Oct 22, 2008 by the ISRO.

"Harvesting one ton of the top layer of the moon's surface will yield as much as 32 ounces (907 grams) of water, scientists involved in the discovery said.

The findings give rise to interesting new questions about where the water molecules come from and where they may be going.

News Source : TOI
Also read the story on Science.


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Bishan Singh Chuphal : Uttarakhand BJP Party President

Pic From : Uttara

Bishan Singh Chuphal, forest minister of Uttarakhand has been appointed as the state BJP party president. Bachhi Singh Rawat (Bachda) had resigned as BJP's state chief after the party's poor showing in Lok Sabha elections. He had been asked to continue as the state party president till the Vikasnagar byelection.

BJP won the Vikasnagar legislative assembly seat by a narrow margin, a few days ago. Bachda has been appointed vice-president of the 20 point program implementation committe (cabinet minister rank).

Bishan Singh Chuphal represents the Didihat legislative assembly seat and would be BJP's fifth party president in Uttarakhand. Previous ones being : Puranchandra Sharma, Manoharlal Dhyani, Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Bachda.

Mr. Chuphal was born on 13th May 1950 and is an MA, B Ed. He was elected Gram Pradhan for the first time in 1983 and was the block pramukh for Didihat till 1986. He was also the Pithoragarh District BJP party president from 1984 to 1992. In 1996 Bishan Singh Chuphal became an MLA (Uttar Pradesh) for the first time. He entered Uttarakhand's legislative assembly in 2002, won again in 2007 and was appointed as a Cabinet Minister. According to party sources Bishan Singh Chuphal will hold both the posts concurrently till the next financial year.

News Source : Hindustan Press Edition

(Mr. Chuphal is my sister-in-law's cousin.)

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Cambrian Hall School Dehradun

Some recent pics of Cambrian Hall School, Dehradun shot by Gaurav Ahuja. We used to be classmates at Stepping Stones and Cambrian Hall. I was surprised to learn that Mr. R C Singhal still is the principal. Maybe the Old Cambrianites Association can come up with a younger person to lead the School.

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Nivedita Cottage Almora

Western Disciples of Swami Vivekananda lived in this house for a few days in 1898. Swami Vivekananda blessed Sister Nivedita (Miss Margaret Elizabeth Noble) under the "Deodar Tree". Swami Ji gave her new name Sister/Bhagini Nivedita in 1898 in this historical building.

This building was purchased by Lala Hari Shah Thulgharia, great grandfather of current owner Mr. Girish Shah Thulgharia. He purchased it in an auction in 1866 for a sum of Rs. 600 from the then DM John Baeket, who was the first Commissioner of United Province.

At that time Nivedita Cottage was known as "Anta House". Later on it became known as "Oakley House", as in 1869 famous educationist R W Emerson Oakley moved in as a tenant.

In 1898, during his third visit to Almora, Swami Vivekananda used to share breakfast and evening tea with his western disciples in this building.

Mr. Girish Shah Thulgarhia's family still owns another historical house in Almora. The house is located in Khajanchi Mohalla and Swami VIvekananda was hosted there by Mr. Girish Shah Thulgharia's grandfather Lala Badri Shah Thulgharia, during Swami Ji's first and second visits to Almora in 1890 and 1897.

Nivedita Cottage has hosted many other historical figures like Mr. Devendra Nath Thakur (1934) and Rabindranath Tagore. Mr. Girish Shah Thulgharia has a personal museum which has many items associated with Swami Vivekjananda. It is open to general public everyday between 4.30 and 7.00 PM.

Mr. Girish Shah Thulgharia has made available some rooms in the building for accomodation of devotees of Swami Ji.

I had a long conversation with Mr. Shah and he would like to preserve the building for future genrations. His means are limited and it would be great if able people interested in History and Culture come forward to help him. Phone # 9412092531 and 05962-231295. Country code +91.