Govt. comes up with relief package for damage caused by wild animals
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337 people have been killed by wild animals in five years: Forest Minister
The Tamil Nadu government has come up with a compensation package for farmers affected by wild animals. Forest Minister K. Ramachandran told The Hindu on Friday that a government order was ready to award compensation to people whose applications for the relief were pending for long.
According to the Minister, 2,901 applications were pending, a majority of which were not cleared by the AIADMK government. A sum of ₹5.68 crore was required to pay compensation to the affected people.
The Minister said 337 people had lost their lives in attacks by wild animals in the last five years in the State. “The AIADMK government did not give full compensation for many of these deaths...No application for solatium [for deaths] is pending after the DMK came to power.”
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