Evaluation Team To Visit Pench, Tadoba, Melghat

On August 27, NTCA had reconstituted the MEE committee under the chairmanship of P C Kotwal, with Ajay Desai and J A Khan as members. They will be in Pench on Wednesday. The team will head for Tadoba-Andhari in Chandrapur district on October 21 and later Melghat. Earlier, the panel was headed by Arin Ghosh and Belinda Wright of Wildlife Protection Society of India ( WPSI) was its member.

All 39 tiger reserves in the country have been divided into five clusters. Kotwal will evaluate cluster I which includes Dudhwa (Uttar Pradesh) and Corbett (Uttarakhand), Ranthambhore and Sariska (Rajasthan), Melghat, Pench, Tadoba-Andhari and Sahyadri (Maharashtra) reserves. Read the full report here.

Source: Vijay Pinjarkar, TNN, Nagpur.