Dihing Patkai National Park Inaugurated

On 3^rd July, 2021, the newly notified Dihing Patkai National Park was formally inaugurated.

• In June 2021, Assam government notified Dihing Patkai as the state’s 7^th National Park. The notification came within a few days after the government upgraded the Raimona reserve forest to a National Park (the 6^th National Park of Assam).
• As per the provisions of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, whenever it appears to the State Government that an area, whether within a sanctuary or not, is, by reason of its ecological, faunal, floral, geomorphological or zoological association or importance, needed to be constituted as a ....