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Baripada (Odisha), Aug 13: Concrete steps would be taken for speedy disbursement of compensation to the families of those killed in elephant attacks in Odisha, a senior forest official has said.
Quick disbursement of compensation would also be made for crop loss due to marauding elephants, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF), Debabrata Swain, said.
Swain was speaking at the state-level celebration of World Elephant Day organised by the forest and environment department here yesterday.
Unplanned mining operations, industrialization, construction of railway tracks in forest areas and constructions and encroachment along the elephant corridors were posing a threat to the survival of elephants, Swain said
To reduce man-elephant conflict, Swain stressed the need for awareness programmes in schools, colleges and villages.
The Supreme Court has prohibited the use of fire ball and iron nail to disperse elephant herds, he said adding crowd management is important while driving away elephants.
Bamboo, the main fodder of elephants, has become scarce in Similipal and other forests in Odisha, Swain said, stressing the need for growing bamboo clumps in the forests for the survival of elephants.
Describing Similipal as the elephant capital of Odisha, he said 700 of the total 2,000 elephants in the state are in Similipal. (PTI)
Korba, Jun 16: A septuagenarian woman was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Korba district of Chhattisgarh this morning, police said.
The victim, identified as Nevarthin Bai (78), was attacked by the pachyderm when she had gone to collect forest produce from the forest adjacent to her village Sakdukala in Kartala forest range, a forest official said.
"She spotted the pachyderm in the forest, after which she tried to escape. However, theelephant chased and attacked her, in which she died on the spot," he said.
The local villagers spotted her body and informed the police and forest officials, following which they rushed to the spot, he said.
The woman's body has been sent for the post-mortem, he said adding that a case has been registered in this connection.
"The kin of the deceased were given an instant relief amount of Rs 25,000 by the forest department, while the remaining compensation amount of Rs 3.75 lakh will be disbursed after completing all the formalities in this connection," the official said.
With this incident, so far three people, including two women, have been killed in elephant attacks at separate places in the district, the official said.
Forest personnel have been directed to keep an eye on the movement of elephants in the area to avoid human-jumbo conflicts and drive them away from the human habitations, he added.
The thick forested northern Chhattisgarh, comprising Surguja, Surajpur, Korba, Raigarh, Jashpur, Balrampur and Korea districts, are notorious for human-elephant conflict.
The region has witnessed killings of several tribals and widespread damages to houses and crops by rogue elephants in the past few years. (PTI)
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