Forest Minister Mohammad Akbar on Monday admitted in the state assembly that the death of a white tiger at Bilaspur’s famous Kanan Pendari zoo was due to snake bite.
He further confessed that 37 of the enclosures in the zoo were not as per required standard and only 28 enclosures in the zoo were as per prescribed norms.
The minister further accepted that post-mortem report confirmed that the white tiger died of snake bite. He added that mismanagement in the zoo prevailed earlier but now things have been improved.
The minister made the remark in response to a query raised by Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (JCC) Jogi (J) leader Ajit Jogi on behalf of legislator Dharamjeet Singh and demanded expansion of the zoo and for bringing back another white tiger there.
To another question during the Question Hour, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel replying to the query of Bahujan Samaj Party legislator Indu Banjare informed that there were 22 Public Sector Units (PSUs) running in the state.
To a supplementary question by Congress MLA Mohan Markam, he further informed that 11 out of them were running in profit while 7 were in loss.