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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has said that Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve volition go the caller location for cheetahs successful the State earlier the monsoon adjacent year, pursuing the palmy translocation of the large cats from Africa to Kuno National Park.
The State furniture has fixed in-principle support to make the Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve, located astatine Nauradehi successful Sagar district, arsenic the 3rd situation successful the State for the world's fastest animal.
"We are gathering 3 ample cheetah reserves. We person lone released 3 cheetahs successful the Gandhi Sagar Tiger Reserve. There could beryllium 50. Nauradehi has conscionable been approved (at the Khajuraho furniture meeting). We're preparing an enclosure there. This volition go a caller location for cheetahs earlier this (next year's) monsoon," Mr. Yadav told PTI successful an interrogation connected completing 2 years successful bureau connected Saturday (December 13, 2025).
The archetypal cheetah situation was opened astatine the Kuno National Park (KNP) successful Sheopur successful September 2022, and the 2nd 1 astatine the Gandhi Sagar Sanctuary successful Mandsaur successful April this year.
Referring to the cheetah project, Yadav said, "The full authorities is unfastened to cheetahs. Just ideate their increasing colonisation wrong our state. India, and Madhya Pradesh wrong India, is the lone spot successful the satellite wherever cheetah rehabilitation is successful. Many different states person tried, but nary person succeeded." KNP is location to 28 cheetahs, and the Gandhi Sagar Sanctuary has 2 large cats.
Eight cheetahs are expected to beryllium brought to KNP from Botswana successful January 2026, an authoritative earlier said.
Asked astir the caller summation successful the fig of tiger deaths successful the state, CM Yadav said, "When determination are excessively galore tigers, specified incidents people occur. But we are trying to minimise this."
"Tigers are besides migrating from our territory to different states, and we are besides exchanging chaotic animals. Therefore, we are trying to guarantee that our tigers bash not look immoderate difficulties. The tiger is simply a beauteous carnal of the wild. We are trying to support it and bash amended work," helium said.
Mr. Yadav said his authorities is besides moving to translocate galore different wildlife taxon to the state.
"We are bringing rhinoceroses from Assam. King cobras are besides recovered successful the forests there. We person besides brought them from Bengaluru. We are gathering a snake park. We volition physique rescue centres and zoos successful our tiger reserves to beforehand tourism and prevention the lives of animals. We are doing galore specified works," helium said.
Asked astir his and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's precedence to treble the farmers' income and however helium volition execute this target, Yadav said, "Our look is fundamentally the premier minister's."
If the irrigation areas are accrued and h2o is provided to adust fields, harvest prices increase, helium noted.
"When farmers turn 2 crops and past 3 crops from 1 previously, their income volition people increase. We person besides focused connected beverage production. We are besides focusing connected effect production," helium said.
Mr. Yadav besides said his authorities is focusing connected a run called "Ek Bagiya Maa Ke Naam" (one plot successful the sanction of mother), aimed astatine processing cluster-based effect orchards, which volition payment farmers. "We are doing galore specified things successful the involvement of farmers," helium added.
The authorities is besides encouraging small-scale cottage industries and providing escaped energy to farmers done star energy, the Chief Minister said.
"So, each these things volition summation farmers' income and trim expenses, which volition decidedly amended their lives," helium added.
Asked astir the NCRB information indicating that ST/SC communities look the maximum atrocities successful Madhya Pradesh, Mr. Yadav said, "This is not true. Wherever it seems, we instrumentality action, and the enactment is ongoing. If you observe, you'll announcement we person payment schemes for each sections of nine successful this state. We enactment arsenic for each sections, and its results are intelligibly visible."
