Telangana forms State-level committee to mitigate man-animal conflict

Minister for Forests and Environment will be the Chairperson of the Committee, with Rajya Sabha MP KR Suresh Reddy, Special Chief Secretary, Forests, among others, as its members

Hyderabad: The Telangana government has constituted a State-level committee to minimise human-animal conflict and initiate measures accordingly. The move comes in the wake of the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests R Shoba’s appeal to the Government to constitute a State Level Committee to mitigate human-animal conflict.

Minister for Forests and Environment will be the Chairperson of the Committee, with Rajya Sabha MP KR Suresh Reddy, Special Chief Secretary, Forests, among others, as its members.

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The Committee will propose measures to avoid recurrence of incidents of tigers killing human beings, evolve a mechanism to mitigate human-wildlife conflict, review and propose revision, if any, to the existing compensation package, propose guidelines for settling claims for human death, human injury, cattle kills, crop damage etc.

The Committee has been asked to submit its report in three months.

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