BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha Government is proposing a series of changes in Wildlife Protection Act which include elimination of police inquiry report in human injury or casualty caused by wild animals.
While the man-animal conflict scenario is grim in the State, the ex gratia compensation payment system gets inordinately delayed because the Wildlife (Protection) (Orissa) Rules, 2006 mandates an inquiry report from the local police station. Since the Centre has sought proposals from States, Chief Wildlife Warden Sandeep Tripathi said, Odisha is looking to submit the proposal seeking to do away with the clause.