Northern Coalfields Limited has a regular flow of visitors and recruits who use to come to NCL from across India. Located in a remote location far from the city-life, Singrauli is a yet another humble industrial town who supposedly had very little things to offer its visitor for leisure and fun outdoor experiences!

Thus, we were engaged and guided by the ‘Research Wing’, ‘PR department of NCL’ and ‘NCL IIT(BHU) Incubation Center’; to identify, categories, document and create a short video and PPT on possible tourist destination in and around Singrauli region. So, the visitors at NCL can have a glance about the area.

In between Lockdowns this job was a breath of fresh air for us! We have been working with various art history and cultural stories since our inception, it was the first time; we were about to shoot nature! We upgrade our technical capacity with a brand new Nikon Z6-II camera with a 24-70mm lens along with a 150-600mm tele lens for higher range of coverage what is intricate for the shooting in nature, finding animals and birds.

Escaping the clutter of the town; the surrounding area of Singrauli hold eccentric natural beauty filled with exuberant variety of birds, animals, and plants! Seeing from far what had been looking like ‘just birds’; turns into a whole new world of knowledge and exploration. We started learning more about these amusing creatures and managed to photograph and categories more than 100 different bird species! We also captured various wild animals like; Sloth Bear, Wild Boar, various antelopes like Cheetal and Sambar, Jackal, Gharial and many more while we have been traveling and visiting the forest, hills, and wildlife sanctuaries around Singrauli.

Then come the day, when we witness our first encounter with the tiger at his wild vicinity in Sanjay National Park during our 3^rd Jungle Safari; we took during the project. The experience was so heart worming that long after the project goes over, we could not stop ourselves from keep visiting Safaris frequently till date, and in upcoming days we will deliberately explore more such projects and opportunities that may enable us to meet more magical life!

As we finished with our initial outcome and present a big list of places visit and explore with necessary information along with overwhelming photographs and video footages, things started taking new turns in a better way. Brilliant and visionary team of management form NCL observe the gravity of this new development and identify various possibilities around it adequately and took the best measures to take it further.

The local administration and other big players also came along and on 11/08/21, NCL Collaborates with MP Tourism for Integrated Development of Singrauli Eco-Tourism Circuit! Ramkesh Patel also took part in the event and commit for all possible contribution on behalf on team Rosehub and NCL IIT(BHU) Incubation Center’!

This future project will bring huge opportunity of business and social inclusion for local youth, artist, and entrepreneurs! We are glad that we have been a small brick in this new construction!

At the end of our documentation project, we have created an E-book and a video presentation: Please feel free to explore!

After continuous promotional initiatives taken by team Rosehub; the short film- “Singrauli Eco-Tourism Circuit” has been screened, discussed and well appreciated at Khajuraho International Film Festival in TAPRA Talkies at Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh on 9^th December, 2021 followed by a star dusted Poster release on 8^th.

Khajuraho International Film Festival was Organized between 5th to 11th December, 2021, by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in collaboration with Prayaas Production Pvt Ltd, KIFF is the first film festival at a World Heritage site in India. The event has been organized for the past six years at Khajuraho, the biggest tourist center of Madhya Pradesh. The KIFF’s founding principles center on the discovery, promotion, and support of film-making in all genres, thus bringing together the diversity of forms, aesthetics, and content.

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This year, the event was e-inaugurated by the Honourable Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan on 5th of December, 2021. A glittering panel of artist and film maker and enthusiast from all over the world visited the venue along with notable participation from intellectuals, influencer, media and change maker. The venue was a good place to showcase the Short film to promote “Singrauli Eco-Tourism Circuit”, and resulted in constructive communication, discussion, and exploring new possibilities for cooperation.