Dehradun, which is appropriately named as Dehra Doon, where Dehra (Dera) implies camp and Doon implies waterway valley. It is the capital city of the recently made territory of Uttarkhand, and is arranged 250 kilometers from public capital New Delhi. The city has the Yamuna in the west, Himalayas in the north, Ganges in the east and the Sivalik Hills in the south making an ideal vacationer location.
The rich gangetic fields pass by it making it a ripe land, which upholds agribusiness at the spot. The noticeable urban communities like Haridwar, Mussoorie, Rishikesh, Roorkee, Muzaffarnagar, Ambala, Saharanpur, Rishikesh, Yamunanagar, Muzaffarnagar and Mussoorie are close by Dehradun. The renowned Dehradun Rice, as the name proposes is the production of this spot. The spot is additionally popular for its pastry kitchen items.
History
Dehradun was established by the senior child of seventh Sikh Guru Har Rai, Guru Ram Rai. As the name proposes to Guru Ram Rai's Dera or camp in the waterway valley, and supporting this camp (Settlement) is a Darbar, which is known as 'Shri Guru Ram Rai Darbar', set up in the year 1699, and displayed by the renowned burial place of Mughal Great Jahangir. It is followed that during the Mahabharata, (the renowned Indian epic) - time, Dronacharya, who is prevalently known as the educator of Pandavas and Kauravas, inhabited this spot. So it is otherwise called the "Drona-nagri".
Clock Tower, otherwise called the Ghanta-ghar, is a construction which incorporates six working clocks. The spots have numerous courts, bistros and markets, among them the most well known are the Moti Bazar and Paltan Bazar.
The ONGC base camp are available at Dehradun.
The Geological Survey of India, Forest Survey of India (FSI) and the Wildlife Institute of India are significant spots to visit.
Indian Military Academy (IMA) and the Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC) are significant military establishments over the spot and Regional Remote Sensing Center (RRSC) of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is likewise present in Dehradun.
As in light of the fact that Dehradun is put along the Sivalik Hills, it has a cool environment contrasted with the remainder of India. It has a virus winter. Dehradun is associated with New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Ahemdabad, Amritsar, Meerut, Jaipur, Bareilly, HaldwaniKathgodam, Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram, and so on places through the Northern Railways. The Jolly Grant Airport is 25 km away from the primary city.
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