{"id":6507,"date":"2023-03-23T08:28:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T02:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6507"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T09:47:09","slug":"gandhamardan-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gandhamardan-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandhamardan Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Gandhamardan Hill<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Gandhamardan hill (Gandhamardan Reserve Forest) spreads in <strong>Bargarh and Balangir districts in Odisha.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This ecologically fragile ecosystem is rich in floral and faunal diversity and is protected under the Odisha Biodiversity Rules &#8211; 2012.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the Significance?<\/strong> The hill range has a diverse socio-economic, ecological and biological significance for the people of Odisha.<\/li>\n<li>This hill consists of medicinal plants, the hill system is considered the &#8216;Ayurvedic paradise&#8217; of Odisha.<\/li>\n<li>The hills have 2 historical monuments (hill shrines) which are major pilgrimage sites of Odisha.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nrusinghanath temple<\/strong> is located on the northern slope.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Harishankar temple<\/strong> on the southern side.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In his chronicles, <strong>Hiuen Tsang<\/strong> described the hill shrine as a Buddhist heritage site named <strong>Parimalagiri.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are Biodiversity heritage sites?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>These are well-defined areas that are unique, ecologically fragile ecosystems with a high diversity of wild and domesticated species, the presence of rare and threatened species, and keystone species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Legal Provision:<\/strong> As per provision under Section 37(1) of \u2018The <strong>Biological Diversity Act, 2002\u2019, <\/strong>The State Government may, from time to time in consultation with the local bodies, notify the Official Gazette, of areas of biodiversity importance as under this Act.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Ayurveda?<\/h3>\n<p>The ancient Indian medical system, also known as Ayurveda, is based on ancient writings that rely on a \u201cnatural\u201d and holistic approach to physical and mental health. Ayurvedic medicine is one of the world\u2019s oldest medical systems and remains one of India\u2019s traditional health care systems.\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/odisha-declares-gandhamardan-hill-as-biodiversity-heritage-site\/article66646261.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Odisha declares Gandhamardan Hill as biodiversity heritage site<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gandhamardan hill (Gandhamardan Reserve Forest) spreads in Bargarh and Balangir districts in Odisha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}