Lockdown effect: Photo claiming Mt. Everest visible from Bihar goes viral

Team Udayavani, May 6, 2020, 1:39 PM IST

After many decades, the residents of a village in Bihar witnessed the beauty of Earth’s tallest mountain, Mount Everest from their houses. Thanks to the minimal activities in different states owing to the COVID-19 lockdown.

The air pollution in the last 40 days have been decreased significantly and the air quality has been improved.

Indian Forest Service officer Parveen Kaswan took to twitter and shared an image of Mount Everest and wrote that Singhwahini village residents were able to see the Mountains.

When people of Singhwahini village, Bihar saw Everest from their own houses. They say this happened after decades. Courtesy @activistritu. pic.twitter.com/X0SQtZe22T

— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) May 5, 2020

Prior to Parveen, Mukhiya of Singhwahini Gram Panchayat Ritu Jaiswal had shared this photo and wrote, “We can see the Everest from our terrace today in Singhwahini Village. Nature is balancing itself” in Hindi.

Both the posts garnered praise from Netizens on Twitter.

Here are the responses:

Unbelievable !

— Akshika Thakkar (@akshika_thakkar) May 5, 2020

Our flag ?

— Vikram Singh | विक्रम सिंह (@VikramSngh10) May 6, 2020

Beautiful! ?

— Indiangirl? (@TrulyIndiangirl) May 5, 2020

They must have had awestruck experience ?

— Dixon (@DixonBombay) May 5, 2020

In order to curb the spread of novel coronavirus, India is under complete lockdown since March 25.