Elephant corridor along NH8 in Tripura is coming up by winter

The Tripura government has decided to build a dedicated safe corridor for wild elephants along National Highway 8 at Teliamura in Khowai district to ensure safe housing of jumbos in Atharamura hill range up to Baramura, which is expected to be completed by next winter.

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The Forest Minister Animesh Debbarma said the villages along Atharamura foothills have been facing problems with the wild elephant for the last many years. The elephant herds often ransacked the agricultural fields, houses, and rural infrastructure while looking for food.

A few untoward incidents also happened in Kalyanpur, Krishnapur, and Mungiakami area, the minister underlined, and said, “The forest department always tries to look at the incidents in sympathetic consideration for both villagers and the elephants as well. Because of a shortage of food inside the forest, elephants ravage human habitation; villagers grow agriculture for their livelihood, but elephants destroy them.”