A State-level taskforce under the chairmanship of Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) and Chief Wildlife Warden has been formed to prepare a master plan for next three years for reduction of man-animal conflict and submit it to the Government within six weeks, Forest and Environment Minister Bikram Arukha said on Tuesday.
Representatives of SE Railway and ECoR, CEOs of power distribution companies, top Works Department officials, CGM(T) and RO, NHAI, Bhubaneswar, RCCF, Angul, Rourkela, Bhubaneswar, Save Elephant Foundation Trust, NEWS, Angul, Indramani Nath, HOD, Department of Surgery & Radiology, Odisha Veterinary College, OUAT, DFO, Chandaka (Wildlife) Division, Addl. PCCF (Wildlife), Engineer-in Chief, P&D, Water Resources would work as the members of the taskforce.The taskforce can induct any other individual as its member or consult any individual /institution for preparation of the master plan.