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Tiger is national animal. No flower given national status: Govt

New Delhi, July 10: The government has not given the status of 'national flower' to any flower, Union Minister of State for Home Nityananda Rai said in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

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He said the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has notified 'Tiger' and 'Peacock' as the 'national animal' and 'national bird' respectively, through notifications issued in 2011.

"However, no such notification has been issued regarding 'national flower' by MoEF&CC," he said in a written reply to a question.

The response came to a query under the Right to Information Act (RTI) by the Botanical Survey of India (BSI).

Lucknow-based RTI activist Aishwarya Parashar had submitted the query. Aishwarya, had asked if Lotus had been declared as the national flower of India.

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