The 70^th Republic Day was celebrated at the Wildlife Institute of India on 26th January, 2019. Dr. V.B. Mathur, Director hoisted the National flag. Addressing the Institute faculty, staff & researchers he said that the Institute had performed various tasks assigned by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India very successfully. Recently, MoEFCC had assigned the responsibility of both planning and implementing ‘Professional Development Scheme for Environment Regulators’. He said that International agencies viz. National Geographic and Asian Development Bank are now collaborating with WII for many projects in India in the field of wildlife and environment conservation.

He also distributed Certificate of Appreciation to the WII staff viz. Shri Mahesh Tyagi, S.T.O, Engineering Cell and Ms. Poonam Pal, Researcher, Ganga Programme for providing excellent services to the Institute.