Shri Prakash Javadekar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India released the MEE report of National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries 2006 to 2014 on 2^nd September, 2015. He expressed happiness on the overall performance of the protected areas and urged the park managers to continue their efforts for conserving the biological richness of the country.

The Management Effectiveness Evaluation (MEE) process is a global framework to evaluate the performance of protected areas. India is among the select countries in the world that has institutionalized the MEE process for its network of protected areas. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has got independently evaluated 125 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in the country from 2006 to 2014. Despite all odds, the overall outcomes of these assessments are encouraging and the mean MEE score of the Indian protected areas is 60.80%, which is higher than the global mean of 56 percent.

The WII-MEE team comprised of: Dr. V.B. Mathur, Shri V.K. Uniyal, Shri P.C. Tyagi, Shri Aseem Shrivastav, Dr. A.K. Bhardwaj, Dr. Dhananjay Mohan, Shri Shubharanjan Sen, Shri Ajay Srivastav, Dr. Pratap Singh and Shri Nasim Ahmad Ansari. 

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