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Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan connected Sunday inaugurated the recently commissioned Kumki Elephant Training Camp astatine Musalimadugu village, adjoining the Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary successful Palamaner mandal, arsenic portion of his two-day sojourn to the combined Chittoor district.
Farmers presenting a memento with elephant figurines to Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan astatine Kumki elephant campy astatine Musalimadugu adjacent Palamaner of Chittoor territory connected Sunday.
Mr. Pawan Kalyan, who besides holds the Environment and Forest portfolio, played a cardinal relation successful processing the 20-acre installation aimed astatine grooming Kumki elephants to show and incorporate the question of chaotic herds straying into quality habitations from neighbouring Tamil Nadu and Karnataka done the Mudumalai and Bannerghatta sanctuaries connected the fringes of the Western Ghats.
The migratory elephants often stray into villages and farmlands, causing extended harvest nonaccomplishment and posing threats to quality lives.
At the camp, the Deputy Chief Minister was briefed connected the important relation of Kumkis successful mitigating the rising human–elephant struggle crossed occidental Chittoor and the adjoining Annamayya and Tirupati districts. Forest officials explained however trained elephants were utilized to thrust chaotic jumbos safely backmost into their habitats and into the Koundinya sanctuary.
Mr. Pawan Kalyan interacted with mahouts, inspected the camp’s facilities, and talented ₹50,000 from his idiosyncratic funds to them. He besides watched the Kumkis execute manoeuvres, fed the elephants, and commended the Forest Department for establishing the camp.
Earlier successful the day, the Deputy Chief Minister held a reappraisal gathering with wood officials and unveiled the poster of Project HANUMAN (Healing and Nurturing Units for Monitoring, Aid and Nursing of Wildlife).
The inaugural aims to fortify wildlife care, rehabilitation, and struggle absorption done systematic monitoring and modern veterinary support. Officials briefed Mr. Pawan Kalyan connected the 11 halfway components of the project, which see mounting up accelerated effect teams, wildlife rescue units, carnal healthcare facilities, and consciousness programmes successful wood hamlets.
Between 2021 and 2026, elephant attacks led to 23 quality deaths successful the Kuppam, Palamaner, and Chittoor ranges, too extended harvest harm implicit 4,000 acres and nonaccomplishment of livestock. Mr. Pawan Kalyan directed officials to hole a elaborate roadmap with defined targets and timelines for effectual implementation.
Emphasising community-based conservation, helium said some the Kumki campy and Project HANUMAN would play a strategical relation successful protecting wildlife portion ensuring the information of section communities. He besides instructed the section to clasp a advancement reappraisal connected November 18 and 19 to place field-level challenges.
District Collector Sumit Kumar said the constitution of the Kumki grooming campy marks a large measurement towards technological wildlife absorption and addressing the region’s increasing human–elephant conflict.
