Goa seeks Centre's help to curb elephant menace

The Economic Times
30 December 2008

PANAJI: Goa has sought technical and financial help from the Centre to tackle the menace of wild elephants that has badly hit the northern Pernem taluka.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, Rajya Sabha member Shantaram Naik said, "In the last four years, elephants, crossing border from Karnataka, have been causing great damage to the crops in Pernem taluka."

"The elephants have badly damaged the crops of Nagzar, Hassapur, Chandel, Ibrampur, Torsem, Mopa and other villages causing loss of lakhs of rupees," he added.
The MP said, a notice in this regard given by him was admitted in Rajya Sabha for December 23, the last day of the session. However, the issue could not be raised due to constant interruptions.

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