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Consider the following statements about Ranthambore National Park and its tourism significance: (1) Ranthambore was declared a Tiger Reserve under Project Tiger in 1973. (2) Ranthambore Fort, located within the park, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the 'Hill Forts of Rajasthan' inscription. (3) The park is situated at the confluence of the Banas and Chambal rivers. (4) Ranthambore is the southernmost tiger reserve in Rajasthan. Which of the above statements are CORRECT?

Correct answer: (A) 1 and 2 only.

For Ranthambore National Park, only statements 1 and 2 are correct: it was among the original Project Tiger reserves, and Ranthambore Fort is part of UNESCO's Hill Forts of Rajasthan World Heritage property.

  1. (A)

    1 and 2 only

  2. (B)

    1, 2 and 3 only

  3. (C)

    2, 3 and 4 only

  4. (D)

    1, 2, 3 and 4

Explanation

Ranthambore is tested here as both a tiger-conservation site and a heritage-tourism site. The National Tiger Conservation Authority, Illustrative Profile of Tiger Reserves places Ranthambhore at the junction of the Aravalli and Vindhyan ranges and lists Ranthambore among the Project Tiger reserves from the 1973-74 launch phase. UNESCO's World Heritage listing for the Hill Forts of Rajasthan includes the Sawai Madhopur/Ranthambore component, so the statement about Ranthambore Fort is correct. The river statement is wrong because the NTCA profile says the reserve is flanked by the Banas to the north and the Chambal to the east, not situated at their confluence. The southernmost-reserve statement is also wrong because Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve in Kota lies farther south.

Why the other options are wrong

  • (B) It wrongly includes statement 3, although the NTCA profile places Ranthambhore at the Aravalli-Vindhyan junction and describes Banas and Chambal as flanking rivers, not as a confluence site.
  • (C) It omits statement 1, even though Ranthambore was one of the original Project Tiger reserves, and it also includes the false river-confluence and southernmost-reserve statements.
  • (D) It treats all four statements as correct, but statements 3 and 4 fail: Ranthambore is not placed at the Banas-Chambal confluence, and Mukundra Hills lies farther south in Rajasthan.

Concept

This tests Rajasthan protected-area geography alongside heritage tourism, a frequent RAS pattern because parks, tiger reserves and UNESCO-linked forts often appear together in location-based statements.

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