M F AHMAD
Daltonganj, April 30: A herbal garden is underway at the Sunrise Point in Netarhat. It will have plants of commonly known herbs like Hurrey, Bahera, Amla, Aloe vera, Chandun, Rudraksh, Pudina, Ashwagandha, Pipli, Calendula, Lavender etc
Sources said the state chief secretary Sukhdev Singh in one of his visits to Netarhat last year had directed the Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) officials and the DC Latehar to have a herbal garden in Netarhat as part of an added attraction to the tourists.
Sources said Netarhat is famous for the Sunrise and Sunset points but it has more than that celestial thing and here the herbal garden would soon be another big and vital tourists spot.
Luckily enough the Latehar district administration faced no crisis of land for this herbal garden and a plot of 2.5 acres has been allocated to this upcoming herbal garden.
Deputy director South Division of the PTR Kumar Ashish said today, “There is a 2 acre of forest land and 0.5 acre of non-forest land on which a ghoulish and abandoned police outpost exists. We combined the two plots together making it 2.5 acres of land for this herbal garden.”
The old, abandoned and dilapidated building used to house the police outpost in the long past would now be demolished, added Ashish, further saying the NoC (no objection certificate) for which has been issued by the district administration.
The state tourism department is providing funds for raising this herbal garden here for which a little over one crore of rupees has been made available to the South division of the PTR.
The herbal garden will have a proper gate, pathway, fencing, seven pergolas, five gazebos, fountain etc.
Kumar Ashish said, “We have begun growing a nursery at Garu to feed this herbal garden. We are determined to have a luxurious as well as useful herbal garden here in the shortest possible time.”
