India Facts 7

നാഷണൽ പാർക്കുകൾ, ബയോസ്ഫിയർ റിസർവ്വുകൾ, ടൈഗർ റിസർവ്വുകൾ, ഇന്ത്യയുടെ ധാതുസമ്പത്ത് എന്നിവയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചോദ്യങ്ങളാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ പാഠത്തിൽ

• No of national parks in India

                 103

• First national park in India

                 Jim Corbet National Park, Uttarakhand (1936. Old name Hailey National Park)

• First marine wildlife sanctury in India

                 Gulf of Kutch marine park

• Gahirmatha marine marine wildlife sanctury is in

                 Odisha (Famous for Olive Ridley sea turtle nesting)

• Malvan marine sanctury                           : Maharashtra

• Mahathma Gandhi marine National park : Andaman

• National park famous for one horned Indian Rhinoceros

                 Kasiranga National Park, Assam

• National park which is known as Mini Kasiranga

                 Orang National park (Gir national park for lions)

• National park famous for Bengal tigers

                 Manas (Situated in the border of India and Bhutan)

• National park mentioned in Jungle book

                 Kanha national park

• The tiger reserve famous for white tigers

                 Nandankanan tiger reserve (Odisha)

• National park located near Kaiga power plant in Karnataka

                 Anshi National Park

• Which sanctury is known as Kasi of Birds

                 Ranganthittu bird sanctury

• First biosphere reserve in India

                 Nilgiri (First biological park in India is Agasthyarkoodam)

• First planned ecotourism destination in India

                 Thenmala

• State with largest number of national parks

                 Madhya Pradesh (Union territory is Andaman Nicobar)

• First butterfly park in India

                 Bannerghatta (First butterfly safari park in India is Thenmala)

• National park which is on the shores of river Ken

                 Panna

• National park which is Known as crown of Vidarbha

                 Tadoba National Park, Maharashtra

• Wild life sanctury which has the highest Rhino population in the world

                 Pobitora wildlife sanctury, Assam (Indian Rhino vision 2020 project by India and WWE)

• Largest national park in Tamil Nadu

                 Indira Gandhi wildlife sanctury and National park

• First mixed site in India to be listed in UNESCO's world heritage site

                 Kanchanjanga National Park, Sikkim

• No of national parks of India in World heritage list

                 7 (Kasiranga, Manas (Assam), Nandadevi (UP), Valley of flowers (Uttarakhand), Keoladeo (Rajasthan), Sunderban (WB), Great Himalayan National Park (HP)

• National park lies at the meeting place of Kerala, Tamilnadu and Karnataka

                 Mudumalai

• Red Panda project declared in 1996 at

                 Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park

• Floating national park in India

                 Keibum Lamjavo (Manipur, Loktak lake)

• Largest wildlife sanctury in India

                 Great Indian Bustard, Maharashtra

• Largest national park in India

                 Hemis national Park, Jammu Kashmir

• Largest tiger reserve in India

                 Nagarjuna Sagar- Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh

• Smallest tiger reserve in India

                 Bor tiger reserve, Maharashtra

• Largest Tulip garden in Asia

                 Indira Gandhi memorial tulip garden, J & K

• Rajiv Gandhi national park is at

                 Kodagu, Karnataka (Rajiv Gandhi Zoological park is in Pune)

• Indira Gandhi national park is at

                 Tirupur, Tamil Nadu (Indira Gandhi Zoological park is in Vishakapattanam)

• Wildlife institute of India is at\Forest survey is established in 1981 at

                 Dehradun

• Wildlife week is observed in the first week of

                 October

• Salim Ali institute of Ornithology and natural history is at

                 Coimbatore

• Project tiger was started at

                 Jim Corbet National Park (Chairman: Central minister of environment and forests)

• No of tiger reserves in India

                 50 (50th Kamlang of Arunachal Pradesh. 49th Orang of Assam)

• Head quarters of Wildlife crime control beauro

                 New Delhi (Started in 2007)

• National board for wildlife constituted in 2003 as 

                 Statutory body

• Valmiki Tiger reserve                : Bihar

• Indravati Tiger reserve              : Chattisgarh

• Bandhipur Tiger reserve            : Karnataka

• Amrabad, Kawal                        : Telungana

• Melghat, Bor, Tadoba-Andhari  : Maharashtra

• Ratambor, Sariska                      : Rajasthan

• Corbet, Rajaji                             : Uttarakhand

• Buxa Tiger reserve                     : West bengal

• State having largest population of Olive Ridley sea turtles in India

                 Odisha

• First national park in the world

                 Yellow stone national park, USA (World largest Northeast Greenland national park)

• India's biggest wildlife rescue center

                 Gorewada zoo and wildlife research center, Nagpur

• Largest biosphere reserve in India

                 Gyan Bharathi in Gujarat (Smallest one: Dibru Saikhowa of Assam)

• No of biosphere reserves in India

                 18 (10 of this are part of world network of biosphere reserve based on UNESCO)

• Last formed biosphere reserve in India

                 Panna of Madhya Pradesh (2011)

• Sheshachalam hills biosphere reserve     : Andhra Pradesh

• Cold desert biosphere reserve                  : Himachal Pradesh

• Simlipal biosphere reserve                       : Odesha

• Nokrek biosphere reserve                         : Mekhalaya

• Man and Biosphere (MAB) programme was launched by UNESCO in

                 1971

• The state known as mineral state of India

                 Jharkhand (Richest mineral belt : Chotanagpur Plateau)

• Steel capital of India   : Jamshedpur

• Pittsburg of the east    : Jamshedpur

• Ruhr of India              : Damodar Valley

• Largest producer of gold in India

                 Karnataka (Kolar, Hutti, and Ram giri in Andhra Pradesh are the gold mines)

• Iron Ore              : Odisha

• Manganese         : Odisha

• Bauxite, Nickel  : Odisha

• Copper                : Madhya Pradesh

• Diamond             : Madhya Pradesh (Panna)

• Silver, Zinc         : Rajasthan (Zawar mines for Silver)

• Galena, Gypsum : Rajasthan

• Uranium, Coal    : Rajasthan

• Monosite             : Keralam

• Ilmenite               : Andhra Pradesh

• Lignite                : Tamilnadu

• Largest coal field in India

                 Jharia, Jharkhand (Oldest : Raniganj, West Bengal)

• Largest producer and exporter of Mica in the world

                 India (Mica is main raw material in electrical industry)

• Largest copper mine in India

                 Khetri, Rajasthan

• Largest Iron Ore mine in India

                 Bailadila, Chattisgarh

• First Indian state which conduct e-auction of mines

                 Chattisgarh

• Main raw material used in cement industry

                 Limestone

• First stage of coal formation

                 Peat (India is third largest producer of coal)

• Coal with highest carbon content

                 Anthracite (Lignite is known as Brown coal)

• First private sector refinary of India

                 Guwahati refinary

• Which oil field was known as "fountain of prosperity" by Jawaharlal Nehru

                 Ankleshwar Oil field

• Largest oil refinary of India

                 Jamnagar refinary

• India's largest oil and gas exploration and production company

                 Oil and Natural gas corporation Ltd (ONGC, Head quarters Tel Bhavan Dehradun)

• Largest oil field inIndia

                 Mumbai High (Largest natural gas reserve in India)

• Oldest oil well of India

                 Digboi, Assam

• First Uranium deposit to be discovered in India

                 Jaduguda, Jharkhand
                                                                                 (To be Continued...)