Madhav National Park
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Madhav National Park | |
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Location | Madhya Pradesh, India |
Nearest city | Shivpuri around 9km away |
Coordinates | 25°28′N 77°45′E / 25.467°N 77.750°E |
Area | 354 km2 (137 sq mi) |
Established | 1958 |
Visitors | around 500 people (in every year) |
Official name | Sakhya Sagar |
Designated | 7 January 2022 |
Reference no. | 2483[1] |
Madhav National Park is situated in
The park was first noticed in 1956, at 167 km2, as Shivpuri National Park. In 1958, it was renamed Madhav National Park after
Geography
There are several small ponds in this national park, but the largest body of water is Sankhya Sagar, a reservoir,[3] constructed for Madho Rao Scindia when it was still his hunting grounds.[2] He also had constructed a second smaller reservoir by damming Manihar River, Madhav Sagar, known as Madhav Lake.[2] A third reservoir was not included in the park.[2]
Located in the
History
Shivpuri town in the state of Madhya Pradesh was formerly the summer capital and a much larger park was the former hunting preserve of the Scindia maharajas of Ujjain and Gwalior.
After the independence of India, the area suffered degradation.[2] Agriculture and mining encroached on the former hunting grounds. Although the park was noticed in 1956, at 167 km2, as Shivpuri National Park and became the renamed Madhav National Park in 1959, degradation continued.[2][5] The last of the resident wild tigers were seen in Madhav National Park around late 1970. In 1982 a plan to add a new part of the park along the Sindh River was proposed. This expansion area included a corridor joining it to the original 167 km2,[2] which when completed would bring the park to 354 km2. (See map below in external links.)
As late as the 1990s there was little effort to improve the conditions in the park. Illegal mining and questionable mining permits led to significant degradation in the park, so that in the 1990s conservationists took the matter the Supreme Court of India and by 1998 received an injunction terminating mining in the area.[6]
Sights and facilities
On the shores of Sakhya Sagar lake which edges the forests, is a boat club, from where the park visitors can see a number of migratory birds especially in winter, when many migratory waterfowls visit the area. A viewing lodge constructed by the Maharaja called the Shooting Box, is situated above the Sakhya Sagar lake. In the older days one could shoot wildlife, both with a gun and camera from here. Visitors could sit under cover and watch a tiger at a kill. All around the lake (at suitable points), the Maharaja constructed boat landing areas, picnic shelters, watch towers, hides, etc. and a network of well laid out metalled roads.[citation needed]
George Castle
At the highest elevation in Madhav National Park, 484.0 m (1,587.9 ft), is the George Castle (Bankhade Kothi). In 1911, the local
See also
Notes and references
- ^ a b "Sakhya Sagar". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
- ^ ISBN 978-81-7024-950-4.
- ^ Google maps
- ^ "Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
- ^ .
- ^ Shrivastava, Priyanka Pawar; et al. (July 2017). "District Tourism Master Plan for Shivpuri Draft Report". Bhopal: Design and Planning Consultants (DPC). p. 43. Archived from the original on 27 May 2020.
- Shivpuri District of Madhya Pradesh. Archivedfrom the original on 25 May 2020.
- ^ Sengar, Resham (28 August 2018). "The charms of Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 28 August 2018.
- ^ "The Cycle of Life". The Times of India. 16 February 2003. Archived from the original on 21 March 2003.
External links
- Madhav National Park (Map). Archived from the original on 27 May 2020.