Photos of a?beautiful blanket of pink flowers at Odisha¡¯s Puri beach are going viral for obvious reasons. It's a sight to behold!
While sharing photos of beaches in Puri, Odisha, covered in pink flowers called 'morning glory,' IFS officer Susanta?Nanda wrote: 'The ¡®Beach of flowers¡¯. Puri has two stretches of the cleanest & most serene beaches- Golden& Niladri. Move over the Valley of flowers¡Sand dunes covered with natural sand binders in full bloom.¡±
Odisha is considered to be 'India's Best Kept Secret, 'with a 500 km long coastline, mountains, lakes, natural biodiversity, and rivers. The diversity which is offered by this state is unmatched.
The Golden Beach in Puri--stretching across 870m, from Digabareni square to the back of Mayfair Hotel--has been taken up as the pilot Blue Flag Beach in Odisha by the World Bank-funded Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project (ICZMP) of Forest and Environment Department, Government of Odisha.
The Blue Flag Programme for beaches and marinas is run by the international, non-government, non-profit organization FEE (The Foundation for Environment Education) situated in Denmark and started certification of Blue Flag beaches in 1987.
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