Zoo Near Haridwar and Rishikesh: What Actually Exists
Searching for a zoo in Haridwar or Rishikesh? Official sources checked on 30 Oct 2026 publish no zoo or deer park in either city. Malsi Deer Park sits in Dehradun on Mussoorie Road, and the wildlife option at Rishikesh is Rajaji’s Chaurasi Kutiya heritage walk. What actually exists — checked 30 Oct 2026.
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Jungle Safari in Dehradun: Motichur, Ramgarh and What Is Official
There is no jungle safari inside Dehradun city. The Dehradun-side Rajaji gates are Motichur, Chillawali/Mohand and the provisional Ramgarh/Asharodi gate — what each official page publishes on location, distances, season and the booking flow — checked 30 Oct 2026.
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Jungle Safari in Uttarakhand: Rajaji, Corbett and Nandhaur
Uttarakhand’s tourism department lists jeep safaris at Corbett National Park and Rajaji National Park, and the state also runs safaris at Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary. Each reserve keeps its own zones, season and booking portal — Corbett’s zones do not share one season. The officially supported options, where they are and who books them — checked 29 Oct 2026.
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Jungle Safari in Rishikesh: Chaurasi Kutiya, Not a City Park
Rishikesh city has no national park and no official jeep-safari product. The only Rajaji zone the official pages list at Rishikesh is Chaurasi Kutiya — a heritage walk, open year-round, at ₹150 per Indian and ₹600 per foreigner, with no vehicle fee. Jeep safaris leave from Rajaji gates outside the city. What a Rishikesh stay can actually book, and from which gate — checked 29 Oct 2026.
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Jungle Safari in Haridwar: Chilla, Ranipur and What Is Official
There is no jungle safari inside Haridwar city. The jeep safaris that serve a Haridwar stay run from Rajaji gates outside or adjacent to it: Chilla, officially “District Pauri Garhwal, Near Haridwar”, is approached from Haridwar, and the Haridwar/Ranipur zone carries the city’s name. Which gate suits a Haridwar stay, the official distances, season and booking flow — checked 29 Oct 2026.
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Who Was Rajaji? The Statesman Behind the National Park’s Name
The reserve’s official About page says the park was named after the freedom fighter C. Rajagopalachari, popularly known as Rajaji, when the 1983 intent notification merged the Rajaji, Motichur and Chilla sanctuaries. Who he was, the two notification dates the Gazette recites, and the stories this page does not repeat.
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Western Rajaji’s Tiger Supplementation: What the 2026 NTCA Records Actually Show
Two NTCA and Wildlife Institute of India documents of June 2026 carry numbers for western Rajaji: a reintroduction row that starts the programme in 2020 and lists 5 (2M, 3F) introduced, and a roadmap row whose 2022 estimate for the west is 0 while the whole reserve shows 54. What each number measures, and what neither settles.
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Laldhang–Chillarkhal Road: What the Supreme Court Allowed and Restricted Near Rajaji
The Supreme Court’s order of 12 February 2026 lets Uttarakhand work on the existing forest road so remote villages can be reached, bars commercial vehicles from it and sends the enforcement plan to the CEC. What the order says, where the wildlife-board conditions actually come from, and what remained unreported on 28 October 2026.
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Rajaji Safari Rules and Penalties: What the Official Pages Publish
The official Do and Don’t page, item by item, plus the three things the official pages do not publish — no fine schedule, no compounding amounts, no reserve-specific penalty process — and one bounded, dated note on the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 sections behind protected areas. Checked 26 October 2026.
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Rajaji Night Safari: Official Status, Timings and What You Can Book
Checked on the official reserve portal on 26 October 2026: day visit permits in Morning and Evening shifts only, the date-to-zone-to-shift-to-payment-to-permit flow, the published entry and exit windows for three date bands, the reserve’s own sunrise-and-sunset sentence and where a 7pm last exit sits against it.
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Film and Commercial Photography at Rajaji: Official Fees and Permission Steps
The filming and camera charges the official Rajaji pages published when checked on 25 October 2026 — feature film and documentary day rates, refundable security, a commercial camera line that contradicts itself across pages — plus the permission steps a published tariff does not replace.
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Rajaji Project Tiger Funding: Releases, Sanctions and What They Don’t Show
Three annual-report release lines for the reserve, 162.64010, 447.6306 and 561.96 lakh, set against three Annual Plan of Operation orders whose gross, unspent, net and drawing-limit figures are a different kind of number, with no Rajaji-specific expenditure published anywhere in them.
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Rajaji’s 2023 Management Audit: What the Score Measures—and Leaves Unscored
The fifth-cycle evaluation record for Rajaji: 68.94 per cent, graded Good, ranked 40th of 51 in the report table, field visit 7 to 9 September 2022, scored on 33 indicators across six elements, with no reserve-level element scores, indicator scores or weightages published, and with the cluster labels and serial numbers in the report not matching each other.
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Stone Crushers Near Rajaji: What the Court Records Say About Distance and Clearance
Two units, three forums and five dated orders: the High Court stop direction of 2 January 2023 for M/s Shri Sidhbali Stones with its 6.4 km and 161 m figures left inconsistent on the face of the record, the protection wall matter in which a 2023 report records that unit as closed, and the proposed M/s Balaji Associates unit that is still being heard, next listed 25 November 2026.
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Riverbed Mining Near Rajaji: What the 2024 Decision Says—and Leaves Open
The Standing Committee of the NBWL minutes of 31 July 2024 recommending Song, Jakhan and two Windlass riverbed mining proposals subject to conditions, read against the Supreme Court directions of 26 and 28 April 2023, the draft 2018 Rajaji eco-sensitive zone notification and the High Court record of 2 January 2023.
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Lantana in Rajaji: What Research Recommends—and What Is Not Yet Published
The completed invasive plant study recorded in the WII Annual Report 2023-24, the 2023 evaluation telling the reserve to step up weed removal and grass slip planting, and the reserve-specific management plan and treatment outcomes that were not located in public sources as of 23 October 2026.
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Plastic and Waste Pathways from Dehradun into Western Rajaji: What Three Documents Record
A visit observation in the NTCA Annual Report 2022-23, a 2024 Wildlife Institute of India dissertation that mapped 21 garbage sites around the western part of the reserve, and the July 2019 Suswa River Action Plan that never mentions Rajaji: three dated records, none of them a measurement of plastic inside the park.
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Forest Fires in Rajaji: What Research and Official Plans Document
Dated evidence only: the 2007-09 Chilla and Haridwar range study, the 70 hectare Rajaji figure from the 2016 statewide episode, the sanctioned Motichur watchtower and fire lines, and the Supreme Court order of 23 July 2026 that set aside the 2016 statewide directions.
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Van Gujjars and Rajaji: What the Court Record Says About Rehabilitation
Five dated orders of the Uttarakhand High Court in WPPIL No. 140 of 2019, read as documents: the committee process, the interim directions, the 59 versus 57 inconsistency inside a single order, and what the record does not establish about families today.
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Rajaji Wildlife Underpasses: What Camera Traps Reveal
A close reading of the open-access camera-trap study of the Chilla-Motichur, Teenpani and Laltappar underpasses, published on 26 April 2025: 8,198 trap nights, nine corridor species, activity shifts after dark, and the tiger result that is easiest to misread.
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