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JAIPUR SEVENTH BEST TOURIST DESTINATION IN ASIA

A survey, conducted by travel magazine Conde Nast Traveller, has named Jaipur as the seventh best tourist city in Asia. In the survey there were more than 32,000 Conde Nast Traveller readers who answered for the best tourist places for the year 2008 Readers Choice Survey. Jaipur has bagged 76.5 percent of the total votes to rank seventh in the survey.

Other cities that have made in top 10 list of the magazine are: Bangkok, Hong Kong, Chiang Mai, Singapore, Kyoto, Shanghai, Jaipur, Tokyo, Hanoi and Beijing. Started in 1987, the magazine specializes in luxury travel and reviews of high-priced hotels, products, and services.

The pink city of India, Jaipur is a popular tourist destination for tourists from outside India and is a must see. Historically, founded in 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh, the ruler of Amber, Jaipur city today has a population of more than 5 million residents. Its pink stucco in imitation of sandstone makes it remarkable among pre-modern Indian cities.

First clone multi-plantation garden of Rajasthan to come up in Ajmer

To save regional flora in the land of Rajasthan, forest department took the initiative to establish Rajasthan’s first clone multi plantation garden in Ajmer. The garden would witness the growth of rare Ayurvedic species of semi desert region. More than 35 species of Ayurved has been identified in Rajasthan which are auspicious for Ayurved and homeopathy. The garden would develop mother plant and clone of endanger species.

One can take a turn to the foot hills of Aravllis and found dense plantation of vajerdanti, googal and chironj. They are the products which are costly and demanded overseas. The importance of these plants is that they are even used in Allopathic treatment.Like vajerdanti which is useful in toothpaste and mouth ulcer. The goggle plants which are important as anti biotic are now listed in rare species. The property of this plant is that it kills the germs in the air too.

A well equipped nursery would be prepared for the production of these plants in large number. In Ajmer only half a dozen verity of goggle grows. There are other species which are origin of desert land Jodhpur and Jaisalmer.
Meanwhile the department has identified Googra nursery situated on the gateway of Ajmer from Jaipur. People are not aware about the importance of goggle and therefore it is used as wood fuel in rural areas. The department has started preparing base material of this plant in the nursery.The theme of this garden will be to prepare a bank of plants. There are several varieties alone in the goggle and it is needed to develop and improve the species

Beside goggle the department would collect the plants of different species all around the state to cultivate more plants from it. From Kumbhalgarh ( Udaipur range) Salar plant would brought to cultivate in the nursery. From Chittorgarh Chironj and Gajrutsama from Jaiselmer would be brought to add in the species of multi plantation garden. Traversal Rajasthan Isis would be brought from Jodhpur and orojilam indicum from Banswara for the garden.