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UPPCS Environment Gap Sheet: National Parks and Sanctuaries.
UPPCS has asked 22 of these. 4 have not been asked yet. Lock the first list, then read the second: it holds what UPPCS has not used yet.
First, the concept
A national park has stricter protection than a wildlife sanctuary: no grazing and no private rights inside. Both come under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
India has over 100 national parks. Jim Corbett (1936, as Hailey National Park) was the first. Hemis (Ladakh) is the largest.
UPPCS asks a park with its state and its famous animal.
✅ Already asked (22)
Famous for one animal
- Kaziranga · Assam; one-horned rhino
- Gir · Gujarat; Asiatic lion
- Keibul Lamjao · Manipur; sangai (brow-antlered deer); floating park
- Dachigam · Jammu and Kashmir; hangul
- Hemis · Ladakh; snow leopard; the largest national park
- Eravikulam · Kerala; Nilgiri tahr
- Silent Valley · Kerala; lion-tailed macaque
- Kuno · Madhya Pradesh; cheetahs from 2022
- Wild Ass Sanctuary · Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat; Indian wild ass (khur)
- Manas · Assam; pygmy hog, golden langur
World Heritage and special parks
- Great Himalayan National Park · Kullu, Himachal Pradesh; UNESCO World Heritage
- Valley of Flowers and Nanda Devi · Uttarakhand; UNESCO World Heritage
- Khangchendzonga · Sikkim; India's first 'mixed' (natural and cultural) World Heritage site
- Keoladeo · Bharatpur, Rajasthan; birds; World Heritage
- Marine National Park, Gulf of Kutch · Gujarat; India's first marine national park
- Namdapha · Arunachal Pradesh; four big cats (tiger, leopard, clouded leopard, snow leopard)
Uttar Pradesh (UP special)
- Dudhwa National Park · Lakhimpur Kheri; UP's only national park; swamp deer (barasingha)
- National Chambal Sanctuary · UP, MP, Rajasthan; gharial and river dolphin
- Katarniaghat · Bahraich; gharial
- Chandraprabha and Kaimur · Chandauli; Mirzapur–Sonbhadra
- Hastinapur and Okhla · Meerut; Okhla bird sanctuary (Gautam Buddh Nagar)
- Kishanpur and Sohagi Barwa · Lakhimpur Kheri; Maharajganj
❌ Not asked yet (4)
Items marked 'asked in other exams' have come in UPSC or other state exams, not yet in UPPCS.
🔒 4 items not asked yet
Famous for one animal: 2 · World Heritage and special parks: 2
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⚠️ Keibul Lamjao is in Manipur and floats on Loktak Lake. Dudhwa is UP's only national park; the others in UP are sanctuaries. Hemis, not Jim Corbett, is the largest national park.
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