Orissa prepares Rs 53 crore elephant management plan

Indopia
December 30, 2008

Bhubaneswar, Dec 30 Worried over increasing cases of man-elephant conflicts, Orissa government today chalked out a Rs 53-crore integrated elephant management plan to address the issue, official sources said.

"The funds for the elephant management plan will be spent over a period of five years,"an official said after a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here.

Besides setting up squads to check poaching and chasing of elephants from human habitation areas, the plan also has provision of developing pachyderm habitation and introduction of GIS monitoring system.

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