Sundarbans National Park
The Sundarban National Park (Bengali: সুন্দরবন জাতীয় উদ্যান Shundorbôn Jatiyo Udyan) is a National Park, Tiger Reserve, and a Biosphere Reserve in West Bengal, India.
It is part of the Sundarban on the Ganges Delta, and adjacent to the Sundarban
Reserve Forest in Bangladesh. The delta is densely covered by mangrove forests, and is one of the largest
reserves for the Bengal tiger. It is
also home to a variety of bird, reptile and invertebrate species, including the salt-water crocodile.
The present Sundarban National Park was declared as the core area of Sundarban
Tiger Reserve in 1973 and a wildlife sanctuary in 1977. On 4 May 1984 it was
declared a National Park.
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Mountain Railways of India
Mountain railways of India are the six or seven odd "chhotey"
(Hindi for small) lines, out of around 20 similar such narrow or metre gauge remaining in operation around the
world.[1] Built during the nineteenth and early
twentieth century of British colonial rule (the Raj), these lines have been running since
then. Today the Indian Railways runs them, along with the Kashmir Railway, operational since 2005. While
four of these seven: the Darjeeling
Himalayan Railway (1881), the Kalka–Shimla Railway
(1898), the Kangra Valley Railway
(1924), and the Kashmir Railway
(2005), are in the rugged hill regions of the Himalayas of Northern India, two are further down south in the
Western Ghats: the Nilgiri Mountain
Railway in Tamil Nadu, and the Matheran Hill Railway
in Maharashtra; while the Lumding–Silchar line,
built at the turn of the 20th century, lies deep inside Assam, in the Barak
river valley of the Cachar Hills. The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, the Nilgiri
Mountain Railway and the Kalka–Shimla Railway have collectively been designated
as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Assistance
Mountain Railways of India
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