Jim Corbett National Park Director Rahul informed that Ashwani Kumar Choubey, Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, had recently visited the park and said that it will be renamed as Ramganga National Park.

Key Points:

=> The name of this national park will be changed to Ramganga National Park.

=> Ashwani Kumar Choubey discussed and wrote the park's name as 'Ramganga National Park' in the visitors' book which was kept in the museum located in Dhangarhi.

=> The Jim Corbett National Park was established in 1936 and was first named as Hailey National Park.

=> According to its website, the park is the oldest national park of Asia and spans across 520 square kilometre.

=> The park was renamed Jim Corbett National Park in 1956 to honour the conservationist of the same name, a year after he passed away.

=> The national park houses elephants, tigers, deer, nilgai, the slothbear, leopard cat and many other animals and birds.