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| tourist sitting area at nakki lake with diwali decorations |
The 5 days bumper dipawali season in mount abu is completely vanished due to the corona pandaemic . until last year , the hill station use to be packed with tourists for 5 days after the light festival dipawali till ''labh pancham'' ....... the auspicious day when the shops in gujarat reopens.
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The local administration did all preparations including setting up the decorative lights , clean roads , proper direction signs , enhanced parking facilities , extra traffick police and home guards etc. unfortunately , this all went in vain because of drastically low tourist arrival even on the third day of dipawali .
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| boats awaiting tourists at nakki lake |
The shopkeepers at the nakki lake market under depression revealed the fact that there isn't even 40 - 50 percent of the tourist this year compared to former years . according to 'rajasthan patrika (17 nov. 2020)' untill yestarday in 2.5 days 4.5 k vehicles reached mount abu and a total of 5.5 lakh (550 thousand) rupees revenue was collected by municipality. in the former years there use to be less private vehicles and huge amount of tourist through taxi and buses use to enter in mount abu. now , with a 'must have car ' trend , there are more cars and less tourists. also , the municipality applied the system of charging tax according to the size of the vehicle , whereas previously it was according to the person. |
| nakki lake market with a very few tourists |
so, offcourse , there are more vehicles entered in mount abu but this is the fact that there are less people inside them. also people are afraid of getting infected and prefers to avoid travelling in multitude. Thus they are coming in private vehicles, no matter if there are only 2 person in an 5 - 8 seater.
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