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State govt constitutes panel to mitigate human-wildlife conflict

Hyderabad: In the wake of different incidents in which two persons were killed by tigers, the state government has constituted a committee which will propose measures ‘to avoid recurrence of the incidents of tigers killing human beings’. The state-level committee will be headed by the environment and forest minister. In addition to the chairman, there are nine others in the committee, including Rajya Sabha member KR Suresh Reddy.

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The committee that has been constituted will have to evolve a mechanism for ‘mitigating human-wildlife’ conflict. It will also review the compensation package that will have to be given to the victim’s families and propose guidelines for settling the claims not just for human deaths, but also injury, cattle kills and crop damage.

In a GO issued on March 2, the environment, forests and science and technology department said the committee should submit its report within three months.

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