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Just before sunset ; Chitkul

 

 

towards Kinnaur !

 

Kalpa (Chini) .... 9500 ft

 

tunnel..

 

road block !

 

Kinnaur Kailash peak 19850 ft.

 

 

A half frozen nala emerged from a glacier (not in picture)

 

Chilegoja .. Pine fruit

 

Dreamgirl in dreamland

 

 

 

Wild rose..

 

Apple.... harvesting in August- Sept.

 

 

Jorkanden peak (back side) 21237 ft

 

 

Peo. District headquarter of Kinnaur

 

 

A monastry..inaugurated by Dalai Lama in 1992.

 

The lama

 

Lina

 

 

He can not remember his age .

 

preparing soil for farming

 

Satluz river

 

 

kinnauri..

 

 

Otherside of this hill is Tomes Valley..

 

 

Rakdang 18014 ft.. view from Kalpa

 

Bhimakai temple,Sarahan... where Bheem worshipped Parvati

Here Hindu and Budhist religion merged. The old temple (right) got tilted by earthquake; Goddess shifted to new one (left). 

made of wood ...

 

Bulu, Purnimadi and Mani

 

made of wood.......

 

 

Swapan

 

Silver door... Bhimakali Temple

 

 

Usri,Hiya and Rinka

 

Mani,Swapan and Buro.. Bhimakali Temple

 

 

No name.

 

Jorkanden Peak 21237 ft...View from Kalpa(Chini)

 

 

Cherry

 

 

 

 

 

 

The group of Saturday Club

 

 

 

 

 

Satluz river

 

Hydel power

 

 

Vishnu Temple , Kalpa (Chini)

 

Chitkul Village....11000 ft.

 

 

Bulu and her fond

 

Food grain storeroom for 4 months.Nov to Feb.

 

Lina and Hiru

 

 

Putu,Lina and Tina

 

Swapan and Mani....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baspa river

 

Baspa Valley

 

Chitkul village

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The school... Chitkul

 

 

Dorwaja.. Durga Temple,Chitkul

 

Durga Temple , Chitkul

 

Photographer...Swapan

  

Buro, Usri and Rinka

 

Saro Peak 19948 ft..... from Kalpa (Chini)

 

Purnima di .

 

Posed for photograph.

 

Usri with..........

 

Consequences...

Cyclones, dengue, all due to global warming: report

A first-ever comprehensive scientific study on the impact of climate change on India, supported by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), predicts changes in rainfall patterns in western and central India. These changed rainfall patterns will have a bearing on water systems and agriculture.

The report ‘Climate Change and India: Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation’, which was released on November 11, warns that as these changes would have a bearing on gross domestic output, the country’s planners would have to adopt a more climate-friendly development process.

The report makes several predictions on climate, rainfall, environment and health.
The districts of Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara in Orissa, Nellore and Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu and Junagadh and Porbandar in Gujarat will witness severe storms caused by global climatic changes.

“The Himalayan river systems draining into the Ganga basin are gradually dying out,” says the report. Decreasing water in these rivers, which include the Ghagra, Sarda and Yamuna, even as they become choked with sediments deposited from their tributaries, will reach alarming proportions within the next half-century or so, it notes. Himalayan glaciers like the Gangotri and Chhota Shigri, a major source of fresh water, are also shrinking rapidly.
With decreased rainfall in western India, water levels in the Sabarmati river which flows through north Gujarat, and the Luni which flows through Rajasthan, will drop, the report warns.

On the health front too, the report attributes the recent upsurge in dengue cases in urban areas of Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra, partly to an inefficient public health administration and partly because mosquitoes hold sway in conditions of increased temperature and humidity.

Climate changes will also affect agriculture, resulting in losses of farm revenue ranging between 9-25%. A two-degree-centigrade rise in temperature, and a seven per cent increase in rainfall, could adversely affect agriculture in the coastal regions of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Small losses are also indicated for the major foodgrain-producing regions of Punjab, Haryana and Karnataka.

India’s rich biodiversity in its forests, grasslands, mangroves and coral reefs are at severe risk from climate changes, the report warns. Coral reefs along the Indian coast, and a major attraction in the Lakshadweep and Andaman and Nicobar islands, will bleach due to the temperature rise, while an increase in sea levels will submerge mangroves and increase the salinity of wetlands along India’s east coast.

Energy, a precious resource, will be further stressed by increased temperatures that will push the demand for space-cooling on the one hand; heightened demands for groundwater will increase water-pumping, on the other.

India’s dream of putting in place state-of-the-art infrastructure will also have to factor in vulnerability to cyclones, heavy rains and landslides, even as standing infrastructure will incur greater costs for retrofitting and upkeep. The report calls for all this information to be factored into the country’s development planning. Areas that are more vulnerable to malaria, for instance, would need the focused attention of health workers

Dear Sara ....

In next 3 decades , the temperature of earth will increase by 3 to 4 Celsius due to global warming .

Sara ….. what do you think about the consequences ?????

Bhasan

Inverted structure of Devi Durga after immersion .... Ichamoti River , Bangladesh border