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Solar fencing along select reserve forest peripheries

Staff Reporter

Rs. 16 lakh sanctioned to execute the project

Stretches identified in Omandur, Pulivalam and Periyamalai
Measure being taken following plaints of animal infiltration into farms

TIRUCHI: In a bid to prevent animals from entering human habitations and damaging their agricultural fields, the Forest Department will embark on the task of erecting solar fence along the periphery of select reserve forests in the district shortly.

The department has identified certain stretches along the boundary of Omandur, Pulivalam and Periyamalai reserve forests for erecting solar fence to a total length of 10 km during the current financial year.

Funds to the tune of Rs.16 lakh have been sanctioned to execute the project. Solar fencing to a length of three km each would be erected in Omandur and Pulivalam, while the work would be executed to a length of four km in the identified stretch in Periyamalai reserve forest in Marungapuri.

The fencing work is to be carried out following complaints from villagers especially those residing along the periphery of the reserve forests that animals such as the Indian gaur (bison) and wild boar entered into their localities and damaged their agricultural fields.

The low voltage impulse from the fence will only act as a deterrent and not harm the animals in any way, says a senior official.

The department had constructed two water turfs inside the Thachamalai reserve forest near Thuvarankurichi to cater to the drinking water needs of the animals.

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