TTD EO Sri J Syamala Rao (virtual participation), along with the Additional EO Sri Ch Venkaiah Chowdary and TTD Forest, State Forest and other stakeholders, held a detailed meeting on how to tackle the issue with short-term and long-term plans and also on the overall management of MANIMAL Plan in TTD.
The excerpts from the meeting:
*To deploy additional forces and ensure timely Garbage Management all along the Alipiri Footpath route.
*To take up a Joint Drive all along the footpath route with the officials from Forest, Revenue and Panchayat Raj, Health and Vigilance departments of TTD, with the support of Forest department officials in a regular manner.
*Wild Life Institute of India and
Forest Department to assist TTD in preparing Short-term and Long-term measures to overcome the Human-Animal conflict.
*More measures including camera traps, bio-fences, Net-Guns, high flash torches, Smart Sticks, pepper sprays and many more safety gadgets ensuring Alipiri Footpath a NO LEOPARD ZONE.
*To impose restrictions on shopkeepers, sensitising them not to sell prohibited eatables.
*Focus more on surveillance from the Seventh Mile to the Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple located in the 2.5km stretch area along the Alipiri Footpath route in the Down Ghat road.
*Monthly coordination meeting on Human-Animal conflict with the officers concerned and the stakeholders, and discuss the agendas with timelines.
Among the participants, Wild Life Institute of India Senior Scientist Sri Ramesh Krishnamurthy(Virtual), Conservator of Forest Sri Selvam, DFO Sri Vivek Anand, Deputy Conservator of Forest of TTD Sri Srinivasulu, DyEOs Sri Somannaryana, Sri Venkateswarulu, Health Officer Dr Madhusudhan, VGO Sri Surendra, AVSO Alpiri Sri Ramesh Krishnan and others were also present.
