A meeting of the chief wildlife wardens of the tiger range states and field directors of tiger reserves in India has been convened on January 5 in the Kaziranga Tiger Reserve Assam. The meeting is to end on January 6.
Sources said a letter to this effect has been sent to the field director tiger reserve Palamu by DFO wildlife division & nodal officer Guwahati DD Gogoi.
Sources said the chief wildlife wardens of tiger range states like Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha and Mizoram have been asked to attend this two-day meeting in Kaziranga National Park in Assam.
Confirming this chief conservator of forest cum field director tiger reserve Palamu M P Singh said he would be attending this as he has got an intimation in this regard from PCCF Jharkhand.
The two day meeting has been convened by National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the ministry of environment forest and climate change government of India.
Sources said the tiger reserve Palamu will place before this meeting of no any pendency of case related to the mortality of the tiger.
Further the rime figure related to wild life here is up dated said sources.
Field director M P Singh is likely to raise the issue that in this tiger reserve armed patrolling by PTR personnel is not feasible because of the heavy infestation of Maoists and frequent gun battles with them by the huge contingent of security forces.
Sources said the setting up of Special Tiger Protection Force will take time here while the strength of Tiger Protection Force and Strike Force is just 30 and 24 respectively which is by all standard is too inadequate.
Sources said there are seven villages which require relocation that is shifting out from the tiger reserve.
These villages are latoo, Kujrum, Ramandaag Pandra Vijayopur Henar Ghutua and Gopkhar
Sources said out of these 7 villages only the villagers of Kujrum have expressed their willingness to move out of the tiger reserve as they are now convinced that living outside the tiger reserve will change the economy and earning capacity of the residents of Kujrum.