#salamatpur

[total-health-solutions]

Medical Test of a Tree?

In Salamatpur of Raisen, Madhya Pradesh (India), guards are deployed 24 hours a day to protect a tree. If even one leaf of it falls, the administration gets shaken. The tree is so important that it undergoes a medical checkup every 15 days. About 15 lakh rupees are spent every year in the maintenance of the tree. On September 21, 2012, former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa planted the Bodhi tree. CLICK HERE

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When Parmeshwar Tiwari volunteered to join India’s Home Guard, he didn’t know he would spend five years on a hill in the middle of nowhere defending a fig tree. But he is part of a four-man team doing just that. They protect the tree — in Salamatpur, in the state of Madhya Pradesh — for 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Mike Shanahan at Under the Baynyan. Why one fig tree in the middle of nowhere has a 24-hour armed guard

Gods, Wasps and Stranglers: The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees

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Housewife dies of dengue in Jashore

Jashore Correspondent: A housewife has died of dengue fever at Salamatpur village under Monirampur upazila in Jashore. Bangla News

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Inside India's first department of happiness - BBC News

Inside India’s first department of happiness – BBC News

On a crisp weekday afternoon recently, hundreds of men and women, young and old, thronged a dusty playground of a government high school in a village in India’s Madhya Pradesh state. Hemmed in by mobile towers and squalid buildings, the ground in Salamatpur was an unusual venue for a government-sponsored programme to “spread cheer and happiness”. Undeterred by the surroundings and egged on by an…