Chandigarh Tourism
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City Tourism
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The Department of Tourism, Chandigarh Administration is celebrating World Tourism Day - a weeklong celebrations from 24th to 29th September, 2024.
Project Details
Brief Background
Many majestic mature trees are the natural heritage of Chandigarh and serve as important green landmarks for our city of gardens. They help to create a sense of permanence and identity to the place we live in. Just as our Garden City, it takes decades and in some cases, more than a hundred years for these trees to mature gracefully in our landscape.
Objective
This Project plans to prepare after every five years a list of trees that - because of their age, size, type, historical association or horticultural value - are of special importance to the City. The Mission of the volunteers of YUVSATTA, CTL (Chandigarh Tree Lovers) and Times of India, Chandigarh is to preserve, manage, enhance, and expand a vital collection of plants in an active, urban setting.
Benefits
One can never imagine that there are more than 100 trees in Chandigarh that can be termed as Heritage Trees. These are rare assets for any urban city. As planned and envisaged the Project Heritage Trees serves to identify, recognize and conserve the majestic individual trees in the city landscape.
Implementation Methodology
As Heritage Trees are a part of our Natural Heritage, a special care programme can be put up to conserve them. For example, an urgent need is installation of lightning conductors on some
of these trees to protect against damages by lightning. There is also an importance of motivating concerned officials to adopt other measures to prevent soil compaction or excavation around the root zone.
