Ramsagar National Park
Ramsagar National Park is a national park located in the village of Tajpur, Auliapur Union, Dinajpur District, Bangladesh. It is located around Ramsagar Dighi, 6 km from Dinajpur Sadar. In 1960, Ramsagar was brought under the supervision of the Forest Department of Bangladesh. Ramsagar was established as a modern tourist destination in 1995-96 and was established as a national park on 30 April 2001.
Ramsagar Dighi
The main attraction of Ramsagar Udyan is the huge Ramsagar Dighi. Ramsagar has an area of 4,37,492 meters, a length of 1,031 meters and a width of 364 meters. The average depth is about 10 meters. The height of the bank is 13.5 meters. The famous Raja Ramnath of Dinajpur (reign: 1622-160 AD) dug this Ramsagar Dighi before the battle of Palashi (between 1650-1855 AD). It is named after him Ramsagar. About 30,000 rupees and 1,500,000 workers were needed to dig the tank at that time.
Description
There are 6 picnic corners in this national park. There are 2 toilets, 1 cafeteria, there is a children's park. There are also some deer. Tickets are available to enter the park. There is also an unauthorized library with a collection of more than 600 books called Ramsagar Library, built on 10 October 2010 (10-10-'10) on a private initiative.
There are allegations that the park has become a hotbed of terrorist and drug addicts' immoral and anti-social activities and drug trafficking in the eyes of the local administration and law enforcement agencies. Sometimes they even harass tourists. Picnic corners are also fragile, unprotected and almost unusable due to carelessness.