JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Government has entrusted Alka Kala, Principal Secretary, Women and Child Development, to probe into the missing tigers of Ranthambore National Park.. She has been asked to submit her report on Ranthambhore in a month.
The immediate provocation for the Government to announce yet another enquiry was the release of the figures of the tiger census of May-June 2005 In May-June 2005, the figures of the tiger census were announced. The figures, released by V.P. Singh, chairman of the Empowered Committee on Forests and Wildlife Management set up by the Rajasthan Government, indicated a decline in the number of tigers from 46 (inclusive of six tigers in the neighbouring Kailadevi and one tiger in Sawai Man Singh Sanctuary) in 2003-04 to 26. The State Empowered Committee, which is on an extension, is also supposed to find out the reasons for the decline in the number of tigers.
Besides, there is the much-awaited report from the Central Tiger Task Force, headed by Sunita Narain, which is expected to submit its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by the end of the month.
Rajasthan Minister for Forest and Environment Laxmi Narain Dave, who announced the new enquiry committee, said: "The State Government has ordered the investigation to counter any allegations of irregularities in the census figures." Mr. Dave said pointing out that The CBI too had sought information from the Government to verify the correctness of the census figures in the past, he said.
It is an accepted fact in the wildlife circles here that the successive managements of the Ranthambhore Project Tiger have been, over a period, progressively inflating the figures of tigers in every census to make it appear that everything is fine with the flora and fauna of the Park.
Wildlife experts have been saying that the successive managements of the reserve have been inflating the figures of tigers in the park.
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