Tehri Garhwal- a  panoply of beauty..

            Tehri Garhwal precisely speaking is ‘Heaven on Earth’.. The sound of the mellifluous birds, with fresh air and the scenic beauty all around ; makes it even more attractive and the atmosphere;soothing !!
 I belong to this place and I am proud to have such a beautiful hometown where nature speaks it’s heart out..

The Old Tehri town was the capital of Tehri Garhwal made by Raja Sundarshan Shah after removing the Gurkhas from the particular territory with the help of the East India Company around 1851..

              The Tehri Dam is built on the river Bhagyarathi, a tributary of  river Ganga and is the worlds biggest dam that generates hydro- electricity.

The Tehri dam was the world’s biggest dam to generate hydro electricity!!

People in Tehri had fixed the time of the watch according to the time displayed on the Ghantaghar… Millions of school going children and woman were dependent on the clock of the Ghantaghar!!

This is the image of Ghantaghar before it got submerged. Source: Google

As stated by TOI in one of its Edition in March 2006:

      The famous Ghantaghar (clock tower) built in 1897 by Tehri's fourth ruler Kirti Shah in honour of British Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee of accession to the throne has found its final resting place in a watery grave.

It took nearly five months for the structure known for its intricate architecture to submerge after Tunnel 2 of Tehri Dam was closed on October 29.

The "Purana Darbar" of Tehri's erstwhile rulers had submerged in Bhagirathi's depths in December. But the 110-feet tall clock tower the last landmark of Tehri's glorious heritage vanished on Sunday. It took so long to disappear as it stood about 250 feet higher than the low-lying bazaar area of the town.

So far the rising water of the dam's reservoir have submerged Sonadevi, Bhagwatpur, Malideval, Siroin, Godi and several other villages.

           Few people used watches in Tehri and were used to the time marked by the Ghantaghar," said Rajiv Nayan Bahuguna, son of Sunderlal Bahuguna and an old resident of Tehri, adding nostalgically that after surviving earthquakes, it had to fall to a dam.

This is the image of the submerged Ghantaghar which was earlier a Huge, standing structure
Source: Google