Summary:
This is the third year the government is producing artificial snow since the installation of the artificial snow gun plant in Auli in 2011. It is placed around the Auli artificial lake developed by the Uttarakhand government for creating artificial snow. Since Auli had remained hot and dry like never before for the last two years, even the creation of artificial snow was not possible. A notification in this regard has been issued already.”An artificial snow gun, the only machine of its kind in south Asia, was imported for the south Asian winter games in 2011. This will ensure that the tourists who come to Auli to witness snow don’t return empty-handed.”Ghambhir Singh, deputy general manager of GMVN, said, “We need temperature below freezing point and humidity upto 60% for the snow gun to work..