AGARTALA, Jan 1 (TIWN): Under the initiative of the forest department on Friday, the new dawn of the year 2016 was marked with inauguration of the elephant ride and butterfly park in Sepahijala wildlife sanctuary.

However, Bisalgarh Municipal council chairperson Purnima Chakraborty on Friday inaugurated the elephant ride and butterfly park in Sepahijala wildlife sanctuary for the attraction of the tourist in the park.

Two elephants named as Gita and Madhu is likely to carry tourists a day across the botanical garden in the sanctuary in exchange of money.

Sepahijala Zoo is a popular zoo situated in Tripura. It is also known as Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary that is built on 18.53 sq km area. This zoo has managed to gain a place among countries popular zoos because of its huge collection of birds and other wildlife animals. This has become the popular place for Flora and all the animals of particular region.

With the initiative to increase the tourist flow in the sanctuary a colourful butterfly park, along with a snake park, bird-watching and a film show on wildlife will be screened thrice a week. The film will be screened for 30 viewers in the auditorium of the sanctuary.

The sources also said that a pair of lions has been brought from Bangalore to cater more number of tourists in the sanctuary.

However, the sources also confirmed that Union minister for environment and forests Prakash Javadekar is also scheduled to visit the sanctuary on January 10.

Forest department director Krishna Gopal Roy along with other dignitaries remained present in the program.

On it’s another momentum for the Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary the State Forest Department had managed to introduce the elephant ride in the sanctuary.

This zoo has helped people to enjoy the view of many animal species. Being an attractive place for tourists it has become an important part of Tripura. It has been possible to bring many animals into the zoo to make it more attractive. It has managed to make places for different kind of beautiful trees as it is a botanical garden too. People can find above 150 species of birds in Sepahijala Zoo and experience migratory birds in winter as they take shelter of the zoo at this time. For boating people can head towards Abasarika and Amrit Sagar lakes there.