Residents air grievances about human-elephant conflict at workshop in Hassan

A store was held to perceive the nationalist grievances connected the sidelines of human-animal conflicts, astatine Arehalli successful Belur taluk of Hassan territory connected Monday.

The residents complained to the officials astir the problems they were facing successful the aftermath of elephants roaming successful the locality. The plantation workers had to enactment successful fearfulness arsenic they could brushwood the chaotic carnal astatine immoderate time, portion parents were disquieted astir the information of their children.

They urged the authorities to instrumentality steps to enactment an extremity to the human-animal conflict.

The residents said that if an worker of the Forest Department died successful an elephant attack, the household members of the deceased would get jobs connected compensatory grounds. But, if a nonmigratory died, his oregon her household would not get specified benefits. Many farmers had stopped increasing paddy arsenic elephants harm the crops. They had urged the officials to seizure each the elephants and relocate them.

Similarly, determination were complaints regarding mediocre telephone connectivity, disruption successful powerfulness supply, inadequate nationalist transport installation among others.

Deputy Commissioner K.S. Lathakumari, responding to the complaints, said that the medication was good alert of the human-elephant struggle and the Forest Department had been preparing an enactment program to resoluteness the issue.

The medication would instrumentality the suggestions and complaints of the nationalist and would enactment connected them, she said.

The store was organised to physique the assurance of the nationalist with respect to the human-elephant conflict.

Ms. Lathakumari said that doctors would beryllium appointed to the Community Health Centre astatine Arehalli and besides said that steps would beryllium taken to code telephone network.

V. Yedukondalu, Conservator of Forests of Hassan Circle, said that parts of Hassan had been facing human-elephant struggle for much than 15 years now. The section had been trying to mitigate the problem. The enactment connected mounting up a brushed merchandise centre had begun successful Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary, Mr. Yedukondalu said.

The enactment would beryllium completed wrong a year. Besides, the section had appointed 140 radical for the Elephant Task Force to support way of the question of elephants and alert the public.

Deputy Conservator of Forests Sourabh Kumar, Additional Superintendent of Police M.K. Thammaiah, and others were contiguous astatine the workshop.