From the archive record
Lachman / lakshman jhula suspension bridge and a lovely establishing shot of the foothills town of Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India. One can see a residential housing society complex with multiple buildings of many stories coming up close to the rivers' banks, against the state government rules and advice of environmentalists that have been repeated for years but only now realized, post the Uttarakhand earthquake. Development along the riverbank should be banned. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCA