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Sky Forest asks Chanda officials to prepare a road map for jammed projects

Nagpur: The main secretary (forest) B Venugopal Reddy on Thursday asked Chandrapur forest officials to prepare a road map to accelerate projects stopped in Chandrapur, including the village relocation of Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR).
Reddy is in a three-day visit to the city to review various ongoing projects and schemes implemented by the Ministry of Forestry.
On Thursday, he visited Chandrapur and took information directly about the Bamboo Research Center (BRTC), a botanical garden at Ballarpur Road and Forest Academy.
Recently, the former Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar has voiced concern over the state government inspection projects such as the botanical gardens, the academy and BRTC forestry by not releasing additional funds for them.
The source said the projects were lingering because they cut funds in the past two years because Covid-19.
The Secretary of the Forest asks officials to take fire safety steps and give up what they want from the government.
As a minister of forest, Mungantiwar has released more than Rs 118 Crore for the Botanical Gardens, Rs 74 Crore for BRTC and Rs 150 Crore for the Academy.
But he said the MVA government did not release sufficient funds for these projects.
The source said Reddy also visited Karwa Village on the outskirts of Tadoba to discuss the relaxation.
Karwa is an island and has no human residence within a 10km radius.
If the village is transferred, Tadoba will be one of the best tiger reserves in this country because the tiger will get more space, and help curbs human-animal conflicts.
Secretary also called to accelerate relocation of Rantalodi and Kolda, both villages in the garden core area.
On May 24, Chairman of the Minister of Uddhav Thackeray called to expand Tadoba by accelerating the relocation of one village from the buffer zone and two villages in the core.
While the relocation of Kolsa is still discussed, the spot rantalodi has been decided.
The source said, “Although the land area that will be obtained by Tadoba from the relocation of Karwa will be around 250 hectares, the ecological value will be far more because relocation will stop hunting, forbidden logging and conflict.
The village has given its approval two years ago.” On Friday, reddy Will visit Gorewada and will discuss forest conservation actions in the issue of road construction and wildlife.

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