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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Govt plans ill-conceived: Maneka

Dehradun, December 15
Lok Sabha MP and chairperson of the People for Animals Maneka Gandhi has termed the Uttarakhand Government’s plans to keep monkeys in rehabilitation centres as the most ill-conceived ones.
In a statement issued here today, Maneka said such rehabilitation centres had failed to serve purpose in the states of Delhi and Himachal Pradesh. “It results in the deaths of thousands of monkeys and since it breaks up groups, the result is far more monkeys roaming around in towns,” she pointed out.
“Two centres on 20 acres each as proposed by the Uttarakhand Government will require more than Rs 20 crore for their construction which will take at least 15 years to complete. Monkeys cannot live in cages as they will attack and kill each other as happened in Delhi,” she said.
Maneka has suggested to plant fruit and berry trees in the forest areas on a war footing. “Within three years the monkeys will go back to their original area. Instead of planting more figs and berries, the Forest Department has been focusing on sal, pine and teak plantations,” she observed.

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