New Delhi: National Tiger Conservation Authority Committee (NTCA) who recently visited Corbett Tiger Reserve regarding illegal construction of bridges, buildings and water bodies by logging trees, on Friday observing that all construction activities were ongoing in one of the highest densities at One of the highest density of world tiger habitat without competent sanctions and by violating various legal provisions / court orders is a very good example of administrative and managerial failure.
NTCA noted that the work had been executed by violating the provisions of the Wild Life Law (Protection), in 1972, the Forest Law (Conservation), 1980 and Indian Forest Law, 1927 which attracted criminal provisions and road construction and illegal bridges were such properties Can meet the needs of “single lane highway” in the core / critical habitat ‘Corbett Tiger Backup’.
At the petition submitted in Delhi High Court by Advocate Gaurav Kumar Bansal (wildlife and conservationist activist), a committee suffered by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has found that to enable illegal road and building construction in Corbett Tiger Reserve, forest officers has faked government records.
The committee also recommends that all illegal construction on the Morghatti campus and Pakhrau FRH be destroyed and Eko restoration work is carried out with direct effects.
Also, the costs involved for the same thing to restore from the officers concerned.
The Committee argues that the regional office of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change will begin actions against officers responsible for the provisions provided in the Forest Law (Conservation), 1980 and other competent authorities for violations of wild life (protection) ACT, 1972 and Indian forest forest, 1927.
NTCA also recommends the right actions needed for all the forest officers responsible for the massive violations.
“Only the safari work of Pakhrau Tiger has the necessary approval.
But irregularities have been observed in tree logging.
10,000 trees as reported by logging in news articles is an excessive amount.
More accurate estimates can be done using remote sensing data from the forest.
India Surveonts and the National Remote Sensing Center, “said the NTCA Committee report.
The Delhi High Court had previously directed NTCA to decide the representative made by the Gaurav Petitioner Kumar Bansal, who sought biodiversity protection in Corbett National Park.
Requests seek the direction of alleged construction of bridges and illegal walls in the tiger breeding habitat from Corbett Tiger Reserve.
Applicants have searched for court intervention not only saved the habitat breeding of the Corbett Tiger Reserve breeding but also saves, secures, protects and saves biological diversity, flora and fauna, the ecology of the entire landscape of Corbett National Park.
Plea suspected that the illegal development of the bridge and the wall took place in the Habitat breeding of the Corbett Tiger Reserve tiger and it also without taking all the types of approval from the respondents as needed below section 38 (O) of the 1972 wildlife protection law.
The petition accused that instead of taking action against the error, the National Tiger Conservation Authority in the letter dated August 12, 2021, asked the head of Wildlife Warden, Uttarakhand to see this problem and to provide factual status reports about the issue raised.
by the applicant.
“In accordance with section 38 (O) (g) the protection law of the 1972 Margasatwa, Project Proponent can do all types of construction activities in the reserve area of ​​Tiger only after obtaining approval from NTCA and the National Council for wildlife (NBWL).
However, in the case Instead of taking any approval below section 38 (o) (b) wildlife protection law-1972, the project initiator not only began the construction of illegal bridges and rampant walls in the Habitat breeding of the Corbett Tiger Reserve breeding but also began cutting down trees for this purpose, “a reading request.