1. In Bangalore, this year, the government shamed property tax defaulters by sending drummers to makes noise and wave banners outside of their properties until they paid their taxes. In a similar case, Patna’s Municipal Corporation employed eunuchs to dance and sing in front of businesses to shame them into paying overdue taxes.
2. A village in southern Rajasthan’s Rajsamand district has been planting 111 trees for every girl child born for the last few years. To date, they have planted 250,000 trees and also have a mini industry manufacturing products made from this “forest.”
3.Dowry system was not part of Indian marriage until the Europeans introduced the concept.
4.There is a chain of islands called the Sunderbans near West Bengal that are sinking relatively quickly into the ocean due to climate change, with four already underwater. People who have nowhere else to go are still trying to live there.
5. While many Indian believe that no dinosaurs roamed the Indian subcontinent, the truth is that the biggest dinosaur fossil found to date, Bruhathkayosaurus is said to have roamed the Indian subcontinent.
6. India is known as the land of Tigers, but still the American state of Texas has more tigers than the whole of India.
7. There is a bank in Udaipur that collects Mother’s milk called Divya Mother Milk Bank to provide milk to newborns who can’t consume their mother’s milk.
8. A monument called ‘Zero Mile Stone‘ in Nagpur, Maharashtra indicates the geographical center of India.
9. The world’s largest school in the world is City Montessori School of Lucknow. About 39,437 pupils were enrolled in 2010-2011.
10. Border between India and Pakistan is visible from space at night.
SOURCE:https://www.boydom.com/2013/08/07/50-interesting-and-amazing-facts-about-india-part-5/
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