Assam government to expand orang national park :
v Orang
national park :
Ø Gharials wiped from Brahmaputra
river system in 1950s.
Ø Exapansion of Orang national park
,government reintroducing the Gharials (crocodiles).
Ø The Assam
government issued a preliminary notification for adding 200.32 sq. Km to the
78.82 sq. Km orang national park, the state’s oldest game reserve about 110 km
northeast of Guwahati.
Ø It was established
as a sanctuary in 1985 and declared as a national park on 13 April 1999 and
2016 it attained tiger reserve status.
Ø The Himanta
Biswa Sharma government remove the ‘Rajiv Gandhi’ name to orang given by the
congress government in 1992.
Ø This is also
known as the mini kaziranga national park.
Ø Kaziranga &
Orang parks have a similar landscape made up of marshes, streams and grass
lands and are inhabitated by the great Indian one horned rhinoceros.
Ø The landscape
has 16 species of turtles.
Ø It is the only
stronghold of rhinoceros on the north bank of the Brahmaputra river.
Ø Orang national
park is one of the seven national parks in Assam, other parks are Kaziranga, Manas,
Nameri, Dibru-saikhowa, Raimona and Dehing patkai.