Tour of India - National Zoological Park

Tour Of India

National Zoological Park

The National Zoological Park (Delhi Zoo) is a 176-acre (71 ha) zoo near the Old Fort in Delhi, India. A 16th-century citadel, a sprawling green island and a motley collection of animals and birds, all in the middle of a burgeoning urbane Delhi. The zoo is home to about 1350 animals representing almost 130 species of animals and birds from around the world.

The zoo can be seen on foot or using a battery-operated vehicle which can be rented at the zoo.Visitors are not permitted to bring any food other than drinking water, but there is a canteen in the zoo.

History

The delhi zoo came decades later after the New delhi was built. although the idea to have a zoo at the national capital was mooted in 1951, the park was inaugurated in November 1959.

In 1952 the Indian Board for Wildlife created a committee to look into creating a zoo for Delhi. The government of India was to develop the zoo and then turn it over to Delhi as a working enterprise. In 1953 the committee approved the location of the zoo, and in October 1955 it assigned N. D. Bachkheti of the Indian Forest Service to oversee the creation of the zoo.

Initially Major Aubrey Weinman of the Ceylon Zoological Garden (now the National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka) was asked to help draw the plans for the zoo, but because he was not available for the long term, Carl Hagenbeck of the Zoological Garden of Hamburg was hired. In March 1956, Hagenbeck presented a preliminary plan, which included the recommendation to use moated enclosures for the new zoo. The plan was modified as needed to account for local conditions, and approved by the Indian government in December 1956.

By the end of 1959, the Northern part of the zoo was complete, and animals which had been arriving for some time and which had been housed in temporary pens were moved into their permanent homes. The park was opened on 1 November 1959 as the Delhi Zoo. In 1982 it was officially renamed to National Zoological Park, with hopes that it could become a model for other zoos in the country.

 

Conservation breeding

The zoo is part of conservation breeding programs of the Central Zoo Authority for the royal Bengal tiger, Indian rhinoceros, swamp deer, Asiatic lion, brow antlered deer, and red jungle fowl.

The breeding program for the brow antlered deer has been so successful, starting with a pair of these deer in 1962, that individuals from the herd have been distributed to zoos in Ahmedabad, Kanpur, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Junagarh, and Mysore, and have acclimated well to all of these locations.

How to reach 

DTC Bus routes towards the Zoo

No. From To 894-A New Delhi Rly. Station Holy Family Okhla 445 New Delhi Rly. Station Greater Kailash 374 Nand Nagari Nehru Place 402 Old Delhi Rly. Station Okhla 403 Old Delhi Rly. Station Okhla Village 405 ISBT Badarpur Border 419 Old Delhi Rly. Station Ambedkar Nagar 423 Mori Gate Ambedkar Nagar 425 ISBT Kalkaji 429 ISBT Ambedkar Nagar 438 Old Delhi Rly. Station Jaitpur 966 Nangloi Nizamudin Rly. Station

Nearest Metro Station from Zoo → Pragati Maidan, : 2 kms             → CGO Complex, Lodi Road  : 2 kms

Places at the approx, distance of Zoo

→ New Delhi Rly. Station	: 6 Kms.
→ Old Dehi Rly. Station	: 11 Kms
→ I.S.B.T	: 12 Kms
→ Sarai Kaley Khan Bus	: 5 Kms
→ Red Fort	: 10 Kms
→ India Gate	: 2 Kms

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