Which of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched? National Park — Year of Establishment
- (a)Govind National Park — 1989
- (b)Rajaji National Park — 1983
- (c)Corbett National Park — 1936
- (d)Gangotri National Park — 1989
Correct — A, Govind National Park — 1989.
The stem asks which pair is NOT correctly matched, so the answer is the faulty pair.
Govind National Park — 1989 is the faulty one: the Govind (Govind Pashu Vihar) tract in Uttarkashi was notified as a wildlife sanctuary in 1955, and the Wildlife Institute of India's national-park database dates the national park to 1990.
The year 1989 belongs to Gangotri National Park, printed correctly in option (d). The paper sets the same year against two Uttarakhand parks, and only one of them earns it.
What to carry away is the pair of dates sitting behind this one park: 1955 as a wildlife sanctuary, 1990 as a national park.
- (b)Rajaji National Park — 1983 — This pair is matched correctly, so it is not what the stem is hunting for.
In 1983 the Rajaji, Motichur and Chilla sanctuaries were merged to constitute the national park; the Rajaji Sanctuary itself goes back to 1948, and tiger-reserve status came in 2015. It is the right answer to which Uttarakhand park was formed in 1983 by merging three sanctuaries.
- (c)Corbett National Park — 1936 — This pair is matched correctly, so it cannot be the answer.
The park was set up in 1936 as Hailey National Park, which makes it India's first national park. Its 1973 date is the start of Project Tiger, and the Corbett name came after 1936 — neither of those is an establishment year.
- (d)Gangotri National Park — 1989 — This pair is matched correctly, so it is not the mismatch.
The WII database gives 1989 for Gangotri, whose roughly 2,390 sq km make it the largest of Uttarakhand's national parks, with Gaumukh — the snout of the Gangotri glacier — inside it. It is the right answer to which Uttarakhand national park dates from 1989, the very year option (a) borrows.
A wildlife sanctuary and a national park are distinct legal categories under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, and each is created by its own notification.
One tract can therefore carry two founding years: the year it became a sanctuary, and the later year on which it, or a part of it, was raised to national park status.
A 'year of establishment' column against a national park means that second date — the park notification, not the sanctuary that preceded it.
Uttarakhand's six national parks are Corbett, Nanda Devi, Valley of Flowers, Rajaji, Gangotri and Govind, and their years fall into three clusters: 1936 on its own, then 1982-1983, then 1989-1990.
Holding those clusters is enough to notice a park that has been shifted one step out of its group, which is exactly what option (a) does to Govind.
- Uttarakhand has six national parks: Corbett, Nanda Devi, Valley of Flowers, Rajaji, Gangotri and Govind.
- The Wildlife Institute of India's national-park database lists Govind at 1990, with an area of 472.08 sq km, in Uttarkashi district.
- The Govind tract was first notified as a wildlife sanctuary in 1955 and is named after Govind Ballabh Pant.
- Gangotri National Park dates from 1989 and covers about 2,390 sq km, the largest of Uttarakhand's national parks.
- Corbett was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park and was India's first national park.
- Rajaji National Park was formed in 1983 from the Rajaji, Motichur and Chilla sanctuaries; Rajaji Sanctuary dates from 1948.
- Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers national parks are both dated 1982 in the WII list.
- Corbett came under Project Tiger in 1973; Rajaji was declared a tiger reserve in 2015.
Option (a) prints 1989 against Govind. 1989 is Gangotri's year; Govind's national park notification is dated 1990.
- Govind carries two dates — 1955 as a wildlife sanctuary, 1990 as a national park — and answering with the sanctuary year answers a different question.
- 1989 appears twice in this set, correctly against Gangotri and wrongly against Govind; stopping at the first pair that looks unfamiliar leaves the swap intact.
- The stem asks for the pair that is NOT matched, so a solidly known pair such as Corbett — 1936 is the one to leave alone.
- Corbett's 1973 Project Tiger year and its original name, Hailey National Park, are separate facts from its 1936 establishment.
The idea surfaces as a match-the-pairs or odd-one-out item that sets a protected area against a year, a district, a river or a state.
The same facts also appear in statement form — the park inside which Gaumukh lies, the park constituted by merging three sanctuaries, the first national park of India — so the table is worth learning in both directions.
No eligible match among this question's citable set.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which national park of Uttarakhand was declared a national park in 1990, the area having been notified as a wildlife sanctuary in 1955?
- (a)Gangotri National Park
- (b)Govind National Park
- (c)Rajaji National Park
- (d)Valley of Flowers National Park
Answerb — Govind National Park. The Wildlife Institute of India's database dates the park to 1990, and the tract had been a wildlife sanctuary since 1955.Gangotri dates from 1989, Rajaji from 1983 with its sanctuary from 1948, and Valley of Flowers from 1982, so no other option matches both years in the stem.
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Rajaji National Park was constituted in 1983 by merging which three wildlife sanctuaries?
- (a)Rajaji, Motichur and Chilla
- (b)Rajaji, Motichur and Askot
- (c)Rajaji, Binsar and Chilla
- (d)Rajaji, Chilla and Nandhaur
Answera — Rajaji, Motichur and Chilla. Those are the three sanctuaries brought together in 1983 to form the park in the Haridwar-Dehradun-Pauri Garhwal belt.Askot, Binsar and Nandhaur are wildlife sanctuaries in other parts of Uttarakhand, so options (b), (c) and (d) each substitute a name from outside that merger.
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Which is the largest national park of Uttarakhand by area?
- (a)Corbett National Park
- (b)Rajaji National Park
- (c)Gangotri National Park
- (d)Nanda Devi National Park
Answerc — Gangotri National Park, put at about 2,390 sq km in the WII national-park figures.Rajaji follows at about 820 sq km, Nanda Devi at about 625 and Corbett at about 521 as a national park, so each of the other three is well short of Gangotri.
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India's first national park, established in 1936 in what is now Uttarakhand, was originally named:
- (a)Corbett National Park
- (b)Hailey National Park
- (c)Ramganga National Park
- (d)Rajaji National Park
Answerb — Hailey National Park, the name under which the park was created in 1936.Corbett and Ramganga are names the same park carried later, not at its founding, and Rajaji is a separate park constituted in 1983 in the Haridwar-Dehradun belt.