Villagers demand protection from jumbos near Palamaner
The Hindu
Around a hundred villagers of Gandhi Nagar hamlet, abutting the Koundinya wildlife sanctuary under Palamaner forest range, staged a protest in front of the Forest Range Officer at Palamaner on Monday demanding protection of their crops and homes following the movement of a four-elephant herd close to their habitation since a fortnight.
The villagers said that the herd of four elephants, who strayed in from the Koundinya project, had been camping close to Gandhi Nagar hamlet since a fortnight, regularly raiding the standing crops at nights and retreating into the forests at daybreak. The villagers alleged that in spite of their repeated appeals to the field staff to initiate steps for driving them back into the sanctuary, no action had been taken so far. The villagers expressed anguish that the movement of the jumbos close to human habitations had posed a grave danger to people, particularly the elderly, women and children. Palamaner police rushed to the spotwhen the villagers’ protest led to a traffic jam at the busy tri-State junction towards Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and cleared the snarl with an assurance that the matter would be pursued with the forest officials.Deepthi Priya, PG student of AMC, bags gold medal for best research paper. Sunitha of Department of Microbiology bags the second prize, while Krishna Manasa of Department of Biochemistry gets consolation prize. Andhra Medical College hosted the 2024 Prof. Dr. E. Pedaveera Raju Gold Medal for Best Research Paper in Investigative Medicine for PGs in the departments of Pathology, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Radiology.