DALTONGANJ: A high power transmission line between Betla and Chipadohar in Palamu Tiger Reserve cuts through Betla National Park and the line wires sags dangerously.
There have been five deaths of tuskers since 1998-2010 when their trunk came in contact with the low-level high transmission line wire. The Project Tiger officials kept reminding the electricity department to increase the height of the wire of the high transmission but to no avail.
The Tiger Project is fraught with risks like this as railway lines also truncate the entire tiger reserve.
According to a member of the Government of India s National Tiger Conservation Authority Management, Effective Evaluation East and North East, D S Srivastava, the railway line falls on the migratory route of the elephants in compartment one and two of Saidupe.
