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Participant shows fish caught by him in the Maund mela . Villagers from nearby village gather to celebrate this festival. They make fishing net to catch fish at Maund mela. This festival is also known as Fish killing festival. Maund Mela is a yearly fishing festival of Garhwal and its origin can be dated back to the pre-independence feudal era, initiated by the then Maharajah of Tehri. 'Maund' is a local term meaning the state of drunkenness or addiction. Every year the local villagers gather at Aglar River, near Yamuna Bridge in Tehri district of Garhwal, Uttarakhand to celebrate the fishing festival. The Maharajah then fixed one day which usually falls around 29th June of every year as "Mound." The preparation for the festival begins one month before the actual day of the festival, when one chosen village is given a task to prepare "Mound", sort of addictive paste using the bark of "Timru" plant available locally, for the fish. The bark of the plant is dried and after grinding the powder in the water mills, a powder is created that is put on this day in the Aglar Rivulet so that the fish become paralysed and are caught easily in the nets that are spread downstream. The use of the powder takes place after every head of the village arrives at the designated location at the Aglar Rivulet. The villagers under the age bracket of 12 to 60 then wait for fish to fall in the respective nets of the individuals. Aglar river is a major Himalayan tributary of the river Yamuna. It rises as a number of small streams fed by underground water on the western slopes of the ridge separating the drainage of the Yamuna and Bhagirathi to the west of Tehri. Thereafter the Aglar runs along an east-west direction to join the Yamuna river near a place called Yamuna bridge.The small streams draining the northern slopes of the Mussoorie ridge contribute their water to this river. Source: younguttarakhand.com/ books.google.co.in 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 50, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Please subscribe to our channel wildfilmsindia on Youtube for a steady stream of videos from across India. Also, visit and enjoy your journey across India at www.clipahoy.com , India's first video-based social networking experience! Reach us at rupindang @ gmail . com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com