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Govt to formulate action plan to end human-wildlife conflict in hotspots
The New Indian Express Kottayam
|February 28, 2025
IN THE WAKE of increasing incidents of human-animal conflict, the state government will formulate a special action plan for hotspots.
Conflicts are severe in 273 grama panchayats falling in 75 assembly constituencies. Primary response teams will be formed at the panchayat and municipality level to counter attacks.
A state-level committee headed by the chief secretary will prepare the action plan for district and regional-level committees. The district-level committee should include local MLAs and MPs. Addressing a high-level meeting to review the actions being taken to deal with human-animal conflict, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has asked officers to devise the plan for the same.
This story is from the February 28, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kottayam.
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