SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 21 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 24 of 99

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Consider the following statements regarding India's Ramsar Sites: 1. India has the highest number of Ramsar sites in South Asia. 2. Keibul Lamjao is the only floating National Park in the world and is also a Ramsar site. 3. All Ramsar sites in India are located in coastal regions.

(a)Only 1 and 2 are correct
(b)Only 2 and 3 are correct
(c)Only 1 and 3 are correct
(d)All 1, 2 and 3 are correct

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Statement 1 is true. India's list of Ramsar sites is the longest in South Asia.

Statement 2 is true. Keibul Lamjao, on Manipur's Loktak Lake, is the world's only floating national park, and it lies within the Loktak Lake Ramsar site.

Statement 3 is false. Inland sites such as Wular Lake (J&K) and Sambhar Lake (Rajasthan) are far from any coast.

1 and 2 → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Only 2 and 3 are correct — Keeps Statement 3, which is false. India's Ramsar sites include inland wetlands far from any coast, such as Tso Moriri in Ladakh and Keoladeo in Rajasthan.
(c)
Only 1 and 3 are correct — Keeps false Statement 3 — Wular and Sambhar are inland — and drops Statement 2, though Keibul Lamjao lies within the Loktak Lake Ramsar site.
(d)
All 1, 2 and 3 are correct — Statement 3 sinks it. Harike Wetland in Punjab and Bhoj Wetland in Madhya Pradesh are inland Ramsar sites, so not all are coastal.

Concept

The Ramsar Convention on wetlands was signed at Ramsar, Iran, on 2 February 1971, now marked as World Wetlands Day. India's first Ramsar sites, Chilika Lake and Keoladeo National Park, were designated on 1 October 1981.

Keibul Lamjao National Park floats on phumdis, spongy mats of decomposing plant matter and soil. It is home to the sangai, the brow-antlered deer that is Manipur's state animal.

Statement 2 is loosely worded. The Ramsar listing is Loktak Lake, designated on 23 March 1990, and Keibul Lamjao is part of it.

Loktak was placed on the Montreux Record, the Ramsar register of sites whose ecological character is changing or at risk, in 1993.

Key facts

Keibul Lamjao National Park, on Loktak Lake in Manipur, is described as the world's only floating national park.
Loktak Lake was designated a Ramsar site on 23 March 1990 and placed on the Montreux Record in 1993.
Chilika Lake (Odisha) and Keoladeo National Park (Rajasthan) became India's first Ramsar sites on 1 October 1981.
Inland Ramsar sites include Wular Lake (J&K), Sambhar Lake (Rajasthan) and Tso Moriri (Ladakh).

Study next

The Montreux Record and the Indian sites placed on itPhumdis and the sangai of Loktak LakeThe Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2017

Common traps

Accepting 'All Ramsar sites ... coastal' without testing it — one inland counter-example, such as Wular Lake, is enough to reject it.
Rejecting Statement 2 because the Ramsar listing names Loktak Lake — Keibul Lamjao lies within it.

Ramsar designations are also asked at 14 Sep 2025, 09:00, GA Q.23 (Sarsai Nawar, the sarus crane wetland), and wetland notification at 19 Sep 2025, 16:00, GA Q.21 (the Wetlands Rules, 2017).

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