National Board of Wild life in its meeting held on May 15 in Delhi has decided to send a five member team to the Mandal dam site for inspection and evaluation of it in the context of its impact on the tiger reserve Palamu.
Nishant Verma DIG National Tiger Conservation Authority has issued an office memorandum asking the members to submit the report within ten days from the date of issuance of this office memorandum. May 25 is the last date of submission of the team’s findings.
The team has two representatives from Jharkhand Government side – representative of chief wild life warden and representative of tiger reserve Palamu. Wild life Institute of India, Dehradun too has to send its representative for this team inspection and evaluation.
The team is led by Hari Singh member national board of wild life. DP Bankhwal is another member who is IG forest in regional office of National Tiger Conservation Authority Guwahati.
Field director PTR MP Singh has confirmed the formation of the team for inspection and evaluation of impact here on PTR by Mandal dam since a staggering 1007. 29 hectares of forest land of this PTR will go for the multipurpose project.
The team has been asked to suggest mitigation measures to overcome the impact on PTR in accordance with the provisions as laid down in Wild life Protection Act.