A two-day regional meet of the officials of the tiger reserves located in Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam was held in Kaziranga national park Assam, said sources.
Deputy Director South Division of the Palamu tiger reserve Mukesh Kumar represented Jharkhand in this two day meet in Kaziranga, which began on March 1.
Speaking to this correspondent from Kaziranga national park Mukesh Kumar said the deliberations were on the forthcoming all India tiger estimation which is to kick-start in 2022.
He said the all India tiger estimation is done every four year. It was last done in the year 2018.
Sources said Palamu tiger reserve has been assessed under MEE (Management Effectiveness Evaluation) by the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change Government of India and officials of the Wild Life Institute of India which has given 60.83 per cent score to this tiger reserve.
Sources said the MEE has found acute biotic pressure on this tiger reserve and weak eco development committees.
Sources said mining operations and its adverse effects on the rain fed rivers that crisscross this tiger reserve are the most contentious issues.
Mukesh Kumar said our tiger reserve faces heat on account of numerous concrete watchtowers in its north and south divisions which the national tiger conservation authority finds quite an obtrusive structure in the tiger reserve.
He said we are on the move to camouflage it with a dense bamboo plantation.
On being asked that it is almost a decade now when two villages located in the critical core habitat of the tiger reserve namely Latu and Kujrum have not been relocated to which Mukesh Kumar said we have been making sincere efforts towards this but there are some external influences that confuse and confound residents of these two villages not to move out whipping up unborn problems and the gullible villagers just believe them what they propagate.