A planned mountain town overlooking Tehri Lake, where modern neighbourhoods, old memories, wide water views, and high ridges meet.
About the place
New Tehri was built above the reservoir as the modern headquarters of Tehri Garhwal. Its elevated neighbourhoods look toward Tehri Lake and surrounding ridges, giving travellers a striking meeting of contemporary mountain life, displaced history and one of Uttarakhand's largest engineered landscapes.
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