Overview
- The State Wildlife Board Standing Committee approved the ₹260 crore package to expand an AI-based alert system to about 1,000 forest-fringe villages and to reduce wildlife attacks on people.
- The plan calls for 10 modern control rooms to monitor forest resources and coordinate responses, two permanent rescue centres and 10 transit treatment centres for injured or captured animals.
- The state will form 20 rapid rescue teams, roughly 2,000 village primary response teams and mobile capture squads to relocate crop-damaging animals, and it has proposed two sterilisation centres for monkeys and wild boar.
- The decision was taken on Tuesday, May 26, and ministers directed officials to begin implementation immediately after a deadly tigress attack in Chandrapur that killed four women highlighted the urgency.
- Key operational details such as exact village lists, procurement, staffing, training schedules and phased timelines remain to be published, so the rollout will proceed in stages and some measures are still only proposed.