♦ Indore and Udaipur have become the first two Indian cities that made it to the global list of accredited wetland cities under the Ramsar Convention.

♦ Accreditation is an international recognition for the cities that value their natural and human-made wetlands.

♦ An independent Advisory Committee on Wetland City Accreditation of the Convention in its latest round accredited 31 new cities, including two from India, making the global list of such cities to reach 74.