Jim Corbett National Park may be renamed as Ramganga. The park Director informed that Ashwani Kumar Choubey, Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, has recently visited the park and said that it will be renamed as Ramganga National Park.
The Jim Corbett national park was established in the year of 1936 and was first named the Hailey National Park. It is also the place where the Project Tiger was first launched in the year 1973. The national park is spread over 520 square kilometres and has hills, marshy depressions, riverine belts, grasslands and a large lake, which makes it an ideal habitat for tigers.
The director said, “Ashwani Kumar Choubey, Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, who visited Jim Corbett National Park on October 3 said that the name of this national park will be changed to Ramganga National Park.”
During his visit, Mr Choubey discussed and wrote the park’s name as ‘Ramganga National Park’ in the visitors’ book which was kept in the museum located in Dhangarhi, director said.
Corbett Park has completed 85 years of establishment in the terms of protection of wildlife and forests, but the forest department had taken over the responsibility of protecting the forest of this area 153 years ago. Till 1858, this forest area was also under British rule. As exploitation of forest resources increased, in 1858 the exercise to save it started.
For the first time in 1868, the responsibility of conservation of this area was handed over to the Forest Department. This area was declared a reserve forest area in 1879.
