: Chhattisgarh’s policy to feed excess paddy to wild elephants may do more harm than good #IndiaNEWS A group of wild elephants raided the village of the Kandaraja Panchayat last month, demolishing

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Chhattisgarh’s policy to feed excess paddy to wild elephants may do more harm than good #IndiaNEWS
A group of wild elephants raided the village of the Kandaraja Panchayat last month, demolishing several houses in their wake. Among those whose homes were damaged, was Loknath Yadav, of Barpara, Mainpat in Surguja district. The rains that followed, have added to his woes. Yadav realises the irony of elephants damaging houses in search of food, at a time when the forest department has made food easily accessible to elephants, to reduce such conflict.The forest department had kept sacks full of paddy in the open in the forests near Dandkesara, Kesara and other villages of the same Mainpat area, for the elephants to feed on. The elephant herd, however, bypassed the paddy sacks in Uranga, Patrapara of Mainpat and entered the Kandaraja village. In search of food, the elephants demolished five houses.After similar incidents have come to light, people have started to doubt the state government’s plans to prevent human-animal conflict by feeding excess paddy to the elephants.Due to an abundance of paddy in the state, the Chhattisgarh government has been looking for ways to put the excess crop to good use. Earlier, the government had announced plans to make ethanol from the rice, but that plan is yet to be executed. Now the...Read more

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