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Taking enactment of caller incidents of human-animal struggle successful the state, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, successful his budget, has projected the Karnataka Man-Animal Conflict Mitigation Programme with the full outlay of ₹1,500 crore for the adjacent 5 years. The CM’s connection has gained value successful the airy of caller deaths by elephant attacks successful parts of Chikkamagaluru and Hassan districts.
Mr. Siddaramaiah, in his budget, stated that the authorities spent ₹1,044 crore implicit the past 3 years to mitigate the conflict. The wealth was spent towards compensation for harvest damage, nonaccomplishment of livestock, nonaccomplishment of quality life, instauration of an elephant task unit and leopard task force, installation of a railway barricade, trenching, star fencing and different extortion works. From the existent year, the CM has projected to walk different ₹1,500 to mitigate the struggle implicit the adjacent 5 years. He has reserved ₹269 crore for the archetypal year.
In February, 2 radical died successful elephant attacks wrong a week successful Chikkamagaluru taluk, prompting protests from section people. The residents demanded a imperishable solution to the problem. Similar is the concern successful parts of Sakaleshpur, Alur and Belur successful Hassan district. Several radical person died successful the struggle implicit the years. At present, the authorities gives a compensation of ₹20 lakh to the families of the deceased. There is simply a request for an summation successful the compensation.
The Forest Department has constituted elephant task forces successful the Hassan and Chikkamagaluru districts to support way of elephant herds and alert the section people. However, owed to the shortage of the staff, task forces person not been capable to way the elephants’ question effectively.
Particularly successful Chikkamagaluru district, determination are hardly immoderate elephants with vigor collars to way the question of herds. Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre during his sojourn to Chikkamagaluru, connected February 28, stated that the brushed merchandise centre would beryllium acceptable up for the rehabilitation of trouble-causing chaotic elephants. The section was preparing a task study to acceptable up the centre.
Apart from elephants, determination person been instances of leopards, sloth bears and Indian gaurs attacking quality beings. The projected mitigation programme is expected to see the brushed merchandise centre, installation of railway barricades and different measures to debar the conflicts.
Increasing greenish cover
In a bid to summation greenish cover, amended aerial quality, support wildlife and rise tourer footfalls successful the state, Mr. Siddaramaiah successful his fund announced a slew of measures.
With respect to afforestation activities the Chief Minister said, “In accordance with National Forest Policy, precedence volition beryllium fixed to districts having little than 10% wood screen including Kalyana Karnataka districts successful the State and afforestation activities volition beryllium carried retired successful 75,000 hectares. For this, a full of ₹150 crore volition beryllium allocated, including ₹50 crore from Kalyana Karnataka Region Development Board (KKRDB).”
He besides announced the mounting of 15 caller continuous ambient aerial prime monitoring centres to further fortify aerial prime monitoring successful the State.
The CM said that the wood section volition beryllium strengthened by filling up 2,000 posts successful assorted cadres successful the fiscal twelvemonth 2026-27. In honour of biology activistic Salumarada Thimmakka who passed distant past twelvemonth a memorial volition beryllium built adjacent Hulikal-Kudur.
