Salem Special in Tamilnadu,India
Salem Special in Tamilnadu
salem is an upcoming town. it has to improve in so many aspects. you get the basic/minimum facilities in every field in salem. a lot more upgradation is required given its size and population it accomodates. living in salem is like living in the middle part of Tamil Nadu, you are close to all major towns and cities of the state. public transportation is a big boon, you can travel easily in and around the city. the people are warm andfriendly.
It is a good tourist spot too, with yercard as its hill station. u can spend two days pleasantly in this little place. now it has many good hotels. a hilly murugan temple, 2 lord eswar temples-one in the heart of the town & another in a nearby place called tharamangalam are must sees of this place. lord mariamman(a female god) festival is celebrated throughout the place in a pompous manner, thats a feast for the eyes if you happen to visit in the first week of august.
The steel plant, a cement factory, a spinning mill make it an idustrious town.the anna park and zoo are kids favorite stress_busters!! the ramakrishna mutt will welcome u too rejunvenate your mind and soul. so its a wholesome place to chill out
Salem, nestled in the comfortable center of Tamil Nadu is a quiet town with a balance of all kinds of people. It doesn't experience any weather extremities and is calm throughout the year. Yercaud - a hill-station close by, Steel Plant, Sona College - an esteemed education institution are a few of its pride. It's famous for its mangoes and thatu-vada set - a crunchy delicacy one should try. It's not for the adventurous lot
Vandi vedikkai
Mangoes special salem
Thattuvada settu
Thattuvada set. For those non-salemites, Thattuvada is sandwiched with chilly chutney and a mixture of slices of carrot, beet root, coriander and onion. I believe there is one shop called "Salem Thattuvada set" in Chennai. Nowhere else in TN I have seen nor heard from ppl about this dish.
Food food and snacks everywhere. You cannot find a place anywhere in TN with n number of Hotels, Snacks shops.
Consider a random place in salem walk for 5 mins and i bet you will cross atleast 5 shops that sells food / snacks.
Salem Sago industry
Silver ornaments industry
The centre place in western Tamilnadu that connects western districts with the capital an Andhra and Karnataka.
What I heard from my friends is lot of cinema theaters and cost of living is affordable.
An enthusiastic bunch of people and plenty of hard work — this is what it took to create a bird sanctuary on a lakebed in Tamil Nadu. At 6 a.m. every Sunday, for seven consecutive months, about 150 men, women, and children gathered at the polluted Mookaneri Lake in Salem. Excavators were employed to dig out soil from the 58-acre lake and heap it to form islands on the surface.
The people planted saplings that included naaval, neem, aala maram, arasa maram and vetiver on the islands. Soon, the skies opened up and the plants thrived. Curious birds flew in to check out the new green spot. Mookaneri came alive.
Today, the Mookaneri is an example that wetland conservationists across Tamil Nadu want to emulate. The mammoth task was possible because of an ordinary young man who sells bamboo furniture for a living Piyush Manush.
Piyush has fought innumerable battles for the people of Salem and its natural resources. The 36-year-old was here in the city to talk on wetlands conservation on World Wetlands Day celebrations organised by the Eco Club of PSG College of Arts and Science.
Bird paradise
“Some of the trees in Mookaneri are over 20 feet tall,” says Piyush. The trees attract so many birds that some trunks are completely white with bird-droppings! A Nature lover spotted 42 bird species there in two hours, he adds. Work for the ‘Mookaneri Eco-restoration Project’ was started in May 2010. “We would work till 11 a.m. every week and disperse after a round of kamban koozh,” he says. Piyush also organised fruit festivals by the lake where people could eat fruits and plant the seeds in the islands.
The people planted saplings that included naaval, neem, aala maram, arasa maram and vetiver on the islands. Soon, the skies opened up and the plants thrived. Curious birds flew in to check out the new green spot. Mookaneri came alive.
Today, the Mookaneri is an example that wetland conservationists across Tamil Nadu want to emulate. The mammoth task was possible because of an ordinary young man who sells bamboo furniture for a living Piyush Manush.
Piyush has fought innumerable battles for the people of Salem and its natural resources. The 36-year-old was here in the city to talk on wetlands conservation on World Wetlands Day celebrations organised by the Eco Club of PSG College of Arts and Science.
Bird paradise
“Some of the trees in Mookaneri are over 20 feet tall,” says Piyush. The trees attract so many birds that some trunks are completely white with bird-droppings! A Nature lover spotted 42 bird species there in two hours, he adds. Work for the ‘Mookaneri Eco-restoration Project’ was started in May 2010. “We would work till 11 a.m. every week and disperse after a round of kamban koozh,” he says. Piyush also organised fruit festivals by the lake where people could eat fruits and plant the seeds in the islands.
Water bodies are a city’s lifeline, says Piyush. “But many of them are vanishing; with technology, blink your eye and a hill is gone,” he says.
In 2010, Piyush and a few like-minded people formed the Salem Citizen’s Forum, a collective of urban citizens that engaged in activities for the welfare of the people. The Forum adopted the Ismail Khan Eri and cleared its inlet channel. “The tank saw water after seven years,” says Piyush. They initiated campaigns to curb reckless driving on the roads of Salem, organised rallies against corruption, held clean-up drives, took up the construction of a bridge that was left incomplete by the corporation… “We basically instigate the local judiciary,” explains Piyush.
Piyush runs a successful bamboo furniture business — he grows the bamboo himself in a forest he created on a hilly terrain in Dharmapuri. Called the ‘Coop Forest’, it is Piyush’s way of giving back to Nature by being part of the creation process. Can man create a forest and make a living out of it? The Coop Forest teaches us how. The 150-acre land is owned by a cooperative of people.
The forest, which was once a dry, lifeless terrain, is now also home to thousands of trees such as neem, rosewood, mango, custard apple, jack fruit, chiku, silk cotton and pungam.
‘Green’ ventures are Coop’s USP. Anybody can visit it, stay in the pristine environment and learn about bee-keeping, mushroom cultivation, bio-gas generation…there are 30 such ventures to choose from. Writer M. Harikrishnan’s Kalari Trust is setting up a school for koothu in its premises. Piyush also plans to organise educational camps for school children there.
For a youngster who started off by planting trees in the hills surrounding his hometown, Piyush has come a long way. The vociferous activist has courted arrest, faced threats and taken on corporate giants in his bid to defend the environment…“I do this because I want to satisfy the soul inside me. I am a selfish person.”
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