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About Daachigam Tourism
Only 22 km from the Jammu and Kashmir capital city of Srinagar,
there is the DaachigamNational Park. The
park name translates into "Ten Villages", and it is said that the
name is for representing the ten villages that were actually moved off of the
141 sq. km. of land that now makes up the National Park of today.
This has been a protected park area
as far back as 1910, and at first the protection came from the Maharaja of
Kashmir and Jammu.
But later on, the care and protection came from the surrounding government
authorities. The original creation of the DaachigamPark was to ensure drinking water of
the Srinagar
city to be pure and clean. But in the year of 1981, the area was eventually
moved up to the category of being a National Park.