Which of the following Ramsar wetland site is/are NOT situated in Uttar Pradesh ?
1. Sarsai Nawar Jheel
2. Samaspur Bird Sanctuary
3. Rudrasagar Lake
4. Sultanpur National Park
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Which of the following Ramsar wetland site is/are NOT situated in Uttar Pradesh ?
1. Sarsai Nawar Jheel
2. Samaspur Bird Sanctuary
3. Rudrasagar Lake
4. Sultanpur National Park
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Correct — C, 3 and 4 — Rudrasagar Lake and Sultanpur National Park. Rudrasagar Lake (also called Twijilikma), the reservoir on which the Neermahal water palace stands, is in Sepahijala district of TRIPURA and has been a Ramsar site since 8 November 2005. Sultanpur National Park is in Gurugram district of HARYANA and was designated a Ramsar site on 25 May 2021 — its name is the trap, because Sultanpur is also the name of a district in Uttar Pradesh, but the national park has nothing to do with it. The other two are genuinely Uttar Pradesh wetlands: Sarsai Nawar Jheel in Etawah district (designated 19 September 2019) and Samaspur Bird Sanctuary in Rae Bareli district (designated 3 October 2019), both part of the cluster of UP sites added in 2019-20.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Rudrasagar Lake is correctly identified as being outside Uttar Pradesh, but Sarsai Nawar Jheel is not — it is a shallow wetland in Etawah district of UP, best known as a breeding ground for the sarus crane, and it was declared a Ramsar site in September 2019.  (b) Rudrasagar is right, but Samaspur Bird Sanctuary is very much in Uttar Pradesh — it lies in Rae Bareli district and was designated under the Ramsar Convention in October 2019, in the same batch that took UP from one Ramsar site to seven.  (d) This picks the only two options that ARE in Uttar Pradesh. Sarsai Nawar Jheel (Etawah) and Samaspur Bird Sanctuary (Rae Bareli) are both UP Ramsar sites, so neither can belong in the answer to a question asking which are NOT in the State.

Concept: The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, signed at Ramsar in Iran on 2 February 1971, commits parties to designate and wisely use wetlands of international importance. India acceded in 1982 with Chilika Lake (Odisha) and Keoladeo National Park (Rajasthan), and the network has expanded very fast since 2019, crossing 85 sites by 2025. Uttar Pradesh went from a single site (Upper Ganga River, 2005) to ten, gaining six in 2019-20 alone — Nawabganj, Parvati Arga, Saman, Samaspur, Sandi and Sarsai Nawar — followed by Sur Sarovar or Keetham (2020), Bakhira (June 2021) and Haiderpur (December 2021).

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