Now, Locate The Tallest Chinar Tree In Kashmir Using QR Code

One just has to follow Google to locate chinar trees in Kashmir. NDTV tracked an old chinar tree to Nishat Bagh where it has been standing tall for the last 380 years.

Chinar has stood testimony to the ever-changing history in Jammu Kashmir for so many decades. But over the years their numbers have been drastically decreasing. And now to keep the numbers from further decreasing, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has started geo-tagging them.

One just has to follow Google to locate chinar trees in Kashmir. NDTV tracked an old chinar tree to Nishat Bagh where it has been standing tall for the last 380 years.

"It's the oldest chinar here but now its trunk is shrinking due to soil not being put around its roots methodically," one of the gardeners told NDTV.

According to him, as many as 145 chinars are there in Nishat Bagh alone. "Some of them are dying and it's sad that the government is planting other trees around here," he stated adding that the adjacent Mughal garden has about 185 trees and it's the same story there too.