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Context: India’s largest botanical garden — Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden in Howrah, West Bengal — is under threat due to severe land erosion by Ganga river, experts flagged during a recent site visit. 

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• Parts of its fencing and inner plantation may get washed away by the swelling river, river and environment conservationists found during an inspection of the 1.8 kilometre stretch of the river bank lining the garden. 
• The garden is under the jurisdiction of the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) and the Kolkata Port Trust (KPT) has the jurisdictional command over length of the river from Farakka to Ganga Sagar. Both the organisations admitted the problem but said they have no fund to undertake remedial actions. 
• The garden was founded in 1787. It has about 12,000 specimens of as many as 1,000 species. It is considered the ‘largest man-made plant kingdom’.

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/environment/erosion-by-ganga-threatens-india-s-largest-botanical-garden-in-howrah-86440

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