Nagpur: When Tiger cries for the room and faces the worst crisis that has ever been conflicts for humans at its peak, especially in the Chandrapur district, the Department of Water Resources (WRD) has revived the Asolamendha renovation of the project in Mul-Saoli, which will require a valuable transfer of land Forest 316 hectares, equivalent to 780 soccer fields.
This project cuts the corridor of the tiger between the Tadoba-IndraVati Tiger Reserve.
This project is registered with MOEFCC in 2019, but because the dispute tender is placed on the back of the stove.
On Wednesday, WRD was sought for quotes to appoint a consultant to obtain the opening of the ACT, 1980 Conservation) forest (Conservation), for projects stopped.
A WRD official involved in this project in 2019 said, “the proposal involved the renovation of the Asolamendha Dam on the River Pathri in Sindewahi by increasing the height of the dam by 2.70 meters.
It is true that forest transfers for canals and immersion areas will cut the tiger corridor.
This project also needs 628 hectares of non-forest land.
It will also immerse around 18 villages.
” Asolamendha executive engineer Jitendra Churkhede said, “The project fee is around ‘700-800 Crore and revised estimates are being prepared.
Appointing a consultant is the first step.
This project will increase the potential for irrigation from 10,000 hectares to 54,000 hectares.
” As per churkhed, as the project did not fall in buffers and ESZ from Tadoba, “it will not require a permit environment and wildlife”.
“Wildlife mitigation measures must be taken by building a flyover.
Compensation afforestation will be carried out on irrigation land in Bembla in Yavatmal, “he said.
Wildlife experts and conservationists are afraid of potential dam increasing for sugar cane cultivation in chandrapur and also for industrial units and power plants.
Asolamendha is the tip of the tail of Gosikhurd but farmers do not reap the benefits of irrigation as promised.
“The project will be a bell death spell for tigers that dissolve from Tadoba-Sindewahi-Mul to Gadchiroli-Chhattisgarh through Asolamendha.
The flooding area is a tiger-bearing forest.
When tigers cry for space in Chandrapur and conflict raging, sacrificing 316 hectares of rich forests must be the last thing to consider by the Ministry of Forestry and Moefcc, “said Kishor Rithe, the committee of the former member, NBWL.
Gadchiroli Wildlife Honorary Warden Uday Patel said, “Canal tissue will increase, blocking the movement of wild animals to Gadchiroli and will cause human-animal conflicts.
Of the 82 deaths in attack wild animals in the state, more than 50% are in Chandrapur.
The department of irrigation still has not taken the steps of mitigation of wildlife in Gosikhurd channel cutting the tiger corridor between Tadoba and Bramhapuri.
” “At the time of the Forestry Department worked on a proposal for the tiger to translocate from Chandrapur because the increasing number of them, diverting the vast channel of forest land was justified,” said members of the Wildlife Council of Bandu Dhotre.
Dam-Ning Development * The forest area proposed for 316 hectares * non-forest land is needed 629 hectares * The land forest proposed to be transferred is itself the breeding area of ​​the Tiger – Bramhapuri (169ha), Chandrapur (127ha) and Chanda Central (21ha ) * Asolamendha is a medium project completed in 1914.
It irrigates 9919 hectares in Mul, Saoli, GondPipari and Pombhurna Tehsils * After finishing Gosikhurd Dam, additional water flowing through the Wainganga River will be stored in Asolamendha by diverting through 99km long Gosikhurd RBC * this project Administratively approved in 1983 as one part of the Gosikhurd Project * in 2019, when the renovation proposal was handed over to MoeFcc, the project costs were set at RS1.79 Crore.
Now, he is currently estimated by RS700-800 Crore * Projects not only displacing tigers, leopards and other animals, but also 152 SC / ST and other families