Nilima Sinha, wife of former Union Minister, Yashwant Sinha and experts from forest department today said that Chattisgarh model for elephants was not effective in Jharkhand and it was not possible to keep this animal at one place seeing its migratory nature. Various districts of Jharkhand including Hazaribagh facing elephants’ menace resulting in loss of lives and properties. Now demand has started coming for permanent solution of this problem.
Sources said in Sarguja district of Chattisgarh, forest department work on a unique plan to keep elephants away from human settlement seeing the ongoing Assembly election.
Due to elephants, villagers fear moving out and candidates do not visit remote places fearing elephant attack. But forest department worked on the unique plan digging ponds providing favorite foods of elephants near the pond to make them stay here restricting their movement in nearby villages.
With elephants entering into Sinha’s residence in Demotand few days back, Nilima raised voice for implementation of Chattisgarh model in Jharkhand.
However, forest department officials in Hazaribagh said elephants are migratory animals and keep moving from one place to another.
They said despite food and water, they don’t like to stay at one place. About Chattisgarh model, they said elephants were made to stay at once place for some time or say till election and it is not possible for longer period.
Regional chief conservator of forests Sanjeev Kumar also echoed the same views and said that elephants are migratory in nature and so doesn’t stay at one place.