Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
- (a)Anshi National Park – Karnataka
- (b)Balphakram National Park – Meghalaya
- (c)Chandoli National Park – Gujarat
- (d)Hemis National Park – Ladakh
Correct — C, 'Chandoli National Park – Gujarat' is the wrongly matched pair. Chandoli National Park is in Maharashtra, in the northern Western Ghats (Sahyadri), spread across Sangli, Kolhapur, Satara and Ratnagiri districts; together with the Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary it forms the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve. It is not in Gujarat, so this is the pair that does not match — the answer the question asks for.
- (a)Anshi National Park – Karnataka — Correctly matched — Anshi National Park is in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka and is now part of the Kali (formerly Anshi-Dandeli) Tiger Reserve; so it is not the mismatch.
- (b)Balphakram National Park – Meghalaya — Correctly matched — Balphakram lies in the South Garo Hills of Meghalaya, so this pair is right and not the answer.
- (d)Hemis National Park – Ladakh — Correctly matched — Hemis, India's largest national park and famous for the snow leopard, is in Ladakh; a correct pair, not the mismatch.
A 'which is NOT correctly matched' question tests park-to-State pairings. Three of the four here are right; the odd one out is Chandoli, which belongs to Maharashtra, not Gujarat. Knowing which State each protected area sits in is a standard environment/geography requirement.
The name 'Chandoli' can sound like it could belong anywhere, which is the trap. Remember it as a Western Ghats park of Maharashtra that, with Koyna, makes up the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve — then the Gujarat tag is obviously wrong.
- Chandoli National Park — Maharashtra (Western Ghats); with Koyna WLS it forms the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve.
- Anshi National Park — Karnataka; now part of the Kali Tiger Reserve.
- Balphakram National Park — Meghalaya (South Garo Hills).
- Hemis National Park — Ladakh; India's largest national park, known for the snow leopard.
Chandoli National Park lies in Maharashtra (Sahyadri Tiger Reserve), not Gujarat → option (c) is the mismatch.
- Guessing a park's State from the sound of its name
- Confusing Anshi/Dandeli in Karnataka with parks in other Western-Ghats States
MPPSC and UPSC ask this as 'which pair is NOT correctly matched' or a full List-I/List-II match of parks to States — memorise the park-State-tiger-reserve links.
Match List-I (National Park/Wild-life Sanctuary) with List-II (State): (A) Bondla Wildlife Sanctuary (B) Kangerghat National Park (C) Orang Sanctuary (D) Ushakothi Wildlife Sanctuary; List-II: 1. Orissa 2. Assam 3. Chhattisgarh 4. Goa 5. Tripura
- (a) A-2 B-4 C-5 D-1
- (b) A-4 B-3 C-2 D-1
- (c) A-2 B-3 C-5 D-4
- (d) A-4 B-1 C-2 D-3
Answer(b) A-4 B-3 C-2 D-1 — Bondla (Goa), Kanger Ghati (Chhattisgarh), Orang (Assam), Ushakothi (Odisha).
Same concept — pairing national parks / sanctuaries to the correct State, exactly the skill this Chandoli question tests.
In which Indian state is the Corbett Tiger Reserve located?
- (a) Rajasthan
- (b) Madhya Pradesh
- (c) Uttarakhand
- (d) West Bengal
Answer(c) Uttarakhand
Same idea — placing a national park / tiger reserve in its correct State, the knowledge needed to spot the Chandoli-Gujarat mismatch.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Hemis National Park, famous for the snow leopard, is located in:
- (a)Himachal Pradesh
- (b)Ladakh
- (c)Uttarakhand
- (d)Sikkim
Answer(b) Ladakh — Hemis is India's largest national park and a key snow-leopard habitat.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Chandoli National Park, together with the Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary, forms which tiger reserve?
- (a)Melghat Tiger Reserve
- (b)Sahyadri Tiger Reserve
- (c)Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve
- (d)Pench Tiger Reserve
Answer(b) Sahyadri Tiger Reserve — in the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra.