Question

Which of the following National Park spread over the District Dehradun, Pauri and Haridwar:

1. Govind National Park
2. Rajaji National Park
3. Nanda Devi National Park
4. Corbett National Park

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Rajaji National Park

The correct answer is Rajaji National Park.

• The Rajaji National Park which consists of 9 ranges and is spread over 820.40 sq.km. of Haridwar, Pauri and Dehradun districts of Uttarakhand. 
• The initial notification for the setting up of the Park under the Project Elephant was issued in 1983. 
• The name of Rajaji National Park is derived from the Rajaji Sanctuary, a component unit that established a national park in 1983.
•  It becomes the first National Park in the state to run the two most prestigious wildlife conservation projects- The Project Elephant and The Project Tiger.
• The Tiger Conservation Authority of India had agreed to grant to the Park the status of a Tiger Reserve, making it the second tiger reserve of the state.
• The first being the Jim Corbett Tiger Reserve, which was the first Tiger reserve of country. 

• Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (Raja ji) visited Dehradun in 1948, and was taken to the Shooting Block of the erstwhile Dehradun East Forest Division.
• On seeing the pristine beauty of the area he refused to hunt and suggested that this area must be conserved for his beauty.
• This eventually led to formation of Rajaji Wildlife Sanctuary.
• As anode to him when the National Park was formed in 1983 it was named after him.