Ranchi: Management of Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) prepares to move three villages from the core reserve area to increase ecology and prey base for tigers, leopards and other carnivores.
PTR sources said the population of three villages, namely Kujrum, Latu and Henar, has approved a backup proposal to move and receive monetary compensation.
Mukesh Kumar, Deputy Director of PTR, told Toi: “Documents to begin rehabilitation and relocation of villagers are ongoing.
The population has agreed to move.
Everything has begun to move towards the right direction.” The Foreign Ministry of Forest, Environment and Climate Change has encouraged PTR management to control human encroachment, wild hunting and left wing extremism in the old reserve.
The growing human presence, vanishing base prey and grazing livestock leads to increased biotic pressure from backup.
For example, village livestock villagers through the PTR core area, which in turn, substantially spend vegetation for herbivores such as elephants, Gaur India, deer and endangered species that are on backup.
D S Srivastava, Veteran Wildlife Crusader and members of the country’s wildlife council, said pet grazing posing the biggest threat to PTR.
“There are 189 villages and 32,000 households in the PTR (including the buffer area), which has around 1.50 lakh pet livestock.
If every animal consumes at least 15kg of vegetation per day, how can the reserve habitat be restored?” Srivastava said.
In 1974, PTR had 37 tigers and in 2018, did not have one tiger.
Meanwhile, PTR management has identified beneficiaries for compensation where each member of the household male above 18 years will be considered beneficiary.
Each recipient will be paid by Rs 10 Lakh to buy land and until Rs 5 Lakh to build a new house.
A senior official at the PTR said, “The amount of compensation will be paid together by the center and the top state of the cost of sharing a cost based on 60:40.
Apart from that, Campa (Fund Management Fund Management Aftennation Compensation and Planning Authority will also be utilized for that Same.
We have received Rs 26 Crore for the same thing.
“PTR management said the family had focused on two forest land for relocation.
While one land patch is located in Lowerhar, the other is in Palamu.
In total, two plots measuring 300 hectares.
“We have moved the State Department of land records and income not to tell plots of forest land status,” other officials said.