MP Forest Department: Nature Guide Training Given To Member Of Wildlife Board, Provided Financial Benefits

Vallabh Bhavan of Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal) – Photo: Expansion Madhya Pradesh State Wildlife Board member Vidya Venkatesh has been given training and other work keeping the rules in mind. In this regard, a complaint has been made to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as the Forest Ministry. However, State Wildlife Warden and Vidya Venkatesh say that they did not get this work from the Forest Department, but got it under CSR. Vidya Venkatesh in the State Wildlife Board headed by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan 506 is a member from The rules state that board members cannot do any work in association with the forest department for pecuniary gain. This rule is also applicable in the National Wildlife Board of the Government of India. Even after this, Vidya’s NGO The Last Wilderness Foundation is working closely with the Forest Department to connect the tribals living around the state’s Tiger Reserve and Kuno National Park with eco-tourism. This also includes Project Cheetah being operated in Kuno National Park. Sources in the Forest Department itself claim that the rules do not allow this. Despite this, due to the preference of some officials, this work has been given to Vidya’s NGO. In this case, RTI activist and wildlife activist Ajay Dubey along with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi And have complained to the Union Forest Ministry. He alleges that Rs 4 lakh was paid to Vidya’s NGO in Sehore Forest Division, the Chief Minister’s home district. The tribal community has also been cheated in the name of training. Action should be taken against the guilty officers in this matter. Also if NGO is working then Vidya should be removed from the board. Cheetah Task Force Recommend to become a member of
2022 It has been said in the complaint that Madhya Pradesh’s Wildlife Warden or Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife Animal) JS Chauhan has done with the central government. This recommendation has also been questioned in the complaint. It is the Cheetah Task Force that takes all decisions regarding cheetahs under Project Cheetah, such as when to release them in large enclosures, when to release them in the wild, etc.
Officer’s claim – nothing wrong did
2022 Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) JS Chauhan said in this matter that we have not made any payment to the NGO of member Vidya Venkatesan in the board. He has been placed on the board on the basis of his merit. In Kuno, she is doing the work of imparting training by taking CSR funds. Vidya Venkatesh said – I don’t want to say anything

1644052013 At the same time, Vidya Venkatesh, director of Last Wilderness Foundation, says that her NGO is following the rules. Apart from this, do not want to say anything now. ,