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TAKING STOCK: Minister for Forests N. Selvaraj (second from right) on Saturday taking stock of the damage caused by wild elephants in a sugarcane field ’in Coimbatore District .
Coimbatore: Forest Minister N. Selvaraj on Saturday announced that the State Government had plans to erect solar electric fencing along the frequent man-animal conflict-prone forest boundaries for nearly 500 km across the State. Mr. Selvaraj made the announcement after inaugurating the Medicinal Plants Conservation and Demonstration Centre at Marudhamalai on the outskirts of the City. Conservator of Forests R. Kannan and District Forest Officer I. Anwardeen said the centre had been established in one-acre land with 90 medicinal plant species (from all over the State) at an outlay of Rs. 22,000. Helping tribals
The centre had been set up with the help of tribals and would be handed over to the Village Forest Committees. Marudhamalai Village Forest Committee would maintain and develop the centre. Visitors to the centre would have to pay an entrance fee. The proceeds from the centre would be spent for village development as well, he said. Women in the Village Forest Committee self-help groups were also being trained in raising medicinal plant saplings and the saplings would be sold to the public. Mr. Selvaraj said effective measures would be launched in the form of habitat improvement programmes . He also said compensation of Rs 99 lakh had been given to 1,000 farmers across the State for damages caused to the crops such as maize and sugarcane by elephants. He also gave coin box phones to tribal villagers from three settlements from Karamadai, Neeradi and Sethumadai settlements, pop-corn machine to Marudhalamai Mallikai women self-help groups and television sets to the Sircarborathy settlement. The Minister also gave Rs. 10,000 each to seven persons under the Alternative Employment Scheme. He also inspected the solar electric fence erected at Velliangiri foothills. He promised adequate compensation to farmers whose crops were damaged by wild elephants.
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