National Zoological Park

The National Zoological Park is a 176-acre zoo near the Old Fort in Delhi, India. A 16th-century castle, a sprawling inexperienced island and a motley series of animals and birds, all inside the center of a burgeoning city Delhi. The zoo is domestic to about 1350 animals representing nearly 130 species of animals and birds from around the sector. The zoo can be visible walking or the use of a battery-operated vehicle which can be rented at the zoo. Visitors aren't approved to carry any meals apart from consuming water, however there may be a canteen in the zoo.

In 2014 a visitor became killed as he had fallen into the white tigers enclosure, leading to questions on visitor and animal protection at the zoo. The Delhi zoo got here a long time later after New Delhi turned into constructed. Despite the fact that the idea to have a zoo at the countrywide capital was mooted in 1951, the park became inaugurated in November 1959. In 1952 the Indian Board for Wildlife created a committee to inspect creating a zoo for Delhi. The authorities of India became to develop the zoo and then turn it over to Delhi as a working company. In 1953 the committee permitted the region of the zoo, and in October 1955 it assigned N. D. Bachkheti of the Indian Forest Service to oversee the advent of the zoo.