Chief Minister MK Stalin fed an elephant on Tuesday at Theppakadu camp in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve. |Photo source: Sathyamoorthy M
Chief Minister Mkstalin visited the Theppakadu Elephant camp in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR), Nilgiris, where he built 44 houses specifically for Mahouts at the Elephant Camp on Tuesday.
Mr Stalin opened the Mahout village, which costs Rs. Rs 56 crore, 44 families have been built. Mr Stalin accepted reporters after the inauguration that more development work was planned for the Tiger Reserve and said he was a regular visitor to Neil Gillis, praising the area’s climate.
The Chief Minister also marked 32 vehicles handed over to the forest department, and he then fed the captured elephants preserved in the Pakadu elephant camp.
Mr. Stalin fed sugarcane to a few of the elephants, and was accompanied by Secretary of Environment, Climate Change and Forest Department, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Srinivas Reddy, Chief Wildlife Warden, Rakesh Dogra, Nilgiris Lok Sabha MP, A. Raja, collector Lakshmi Bhavya Tanneeru and other top officials from the forest department.
Earlier, Mr. Stalin stopped along the route to Pacadu and spoke with the residents of Adivasi near Mawanara, asking if they had any dissatisfactions that needed to be addressed.
Mr Stalin will hold the 127th Annual Flower Show in Nilgiris on Thursday.
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