Expressing concern over the increasing elephant deaths in Kalahandi district’s Karlapat Wildlife Sanctuary after a review meeting conducted through videoconference, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has directed the Departments of Forest & Environment and Animal Husbandry to take joint action to stop elephant deaths.
Patnaik also asked the officials to take advices from experts of Odisha and of the national level. The CM also ordered the Kalahandi district Collector, DFO and CDVO to start vaccination of domestic animals and cleaning of ponds in and around the sanctuary.
The review meeting took note of the death of six elephants during the last two weeks caused by the bacterial infection of Pasteurella Multocide which leads to causing the disease haemorrhagic septicemia.