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When Prince Charles on Thursday stepped onto the hollowed precincts of the Indian Military Academy (IMA) here, the British nostalgia of pre-independence era was in the air. Accompanied by his wife Camilla Parker Bowls, the Prince of Wales showed keen interest in a training exercise of the cadets in the academy, set up in 1932.
The Prince, who is on a nine-day trip to India, also shook hands with some of IMA cadets at Chetwode building and received a memento from the academy’s commandant Lt Gen Manvendra Singh.
Later, he went to one more institution established during the British Raj, Forest Research Institute (FRI) where he received honorary doctorate degree and visited a timber centre there.
Soon after the FRI, the Prince went to Navdanya farmhouse of Vandana Shiva in Dehradun where he saw the activities related to seed farming.
Prince Charles also met a group of NGOs engaged in rehabilitation efforts in Uttarakhand and asked them to work on minimising the effects of climate change and preventing a natural disaster of the scale that hit the state in June.
Later, he flew back at Hotel Ananda at Narendra Nagar where Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna hosted a royal dinner in his honour.
Last evening, the British couple attended a Ganga arti at Rishikesh’s Parmarth Niketan on the banks of holy river Ganga.
