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Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Bhupendra Yadav, will visit the under-construction Green Zoological, Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre (GZRRC) and Radhakrishna Temple Elephant Welfare Trust (RKTEWT) in Jamanagar on Thursday.
He will become the first minister to officially visit GZRRC, the mega zoo being developed by Reliance Industries Limited(RIL).
A statement said that Yadav will go to Moti Khavdi village around 11 am on Thursday and visit RKTEWT and GZRRC. The RKTEWT is an animal rescue and rehabilitation centre, which is at present taking care of around 150 rescued elephants.
The GZRRC is a mega zoo being developed on 280 acre of land by RIL on its oil refinery complex in Moti Khavdi village, some 33 km away from Jamanagar city. It is home to a large number of exotic animals as well as those native to the Indian subcontinent. It also hosts more than 100 leopards rescued by Gujarat forest department after they came in conflict with humans.
The statement further said that Yadav will visit Dwarkadhish temple in Dwara town of Devbhumi Dwarka district adjoining Jamanagar around 6.40 am for darshan of Lord Krishna. He will then visit a site near Rukmini temple on the outskirts of Dwarka town where the forest department has been planting mangroves as part of Union government’s Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats & Tangible Incomes (MISHTI) programme, which envisages planting mangroves in 540 sq km along the coastline of the country.
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