Orissa High Court directs CMC to take motion on Cuttack deer inhabitants

By Express News Service
CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court has directed the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) to move inside three months acceptable order on a illustration on overpopulation of deer within the civic physique’s park in Madhusudan Nagar space on Mahanadi riverbanks.

​The deer park had give you a dozen deer within the Eighties. It has now over 175 deer inhabitants unfold over two and a half acre. The regulation permits three to 5 deer in a single acre.

One Rabeya Tabassum had filed a petition looking for intervention towards inaction on her illustration to the CMC Commissioner to launch extra deer within the wild or hand them over to a recognised zoo.

Responding to the petition, the only choose bench of Justice BR Sarangi mentioned, “Considering the limited grievance of the petitioner, without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, this Court disposes of the writ petition directing the CMC Commissioner to consider the representation filed by the petitioner with consultation of the Forest department and pass appropriate order in accordance with law within a period of three months.”

Overpopulation on the deer park has been an unresolved concern ever because the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) flagged it in 2009 and requested the civic physique to relocate the surplus animals. While the CZA had cancelled recognition to the deer park a number of instances and renewed it on CMC’s enchantment for grant of extra time to cope with the surplus animals, the civic physique had deliberate a second deer park within the metropolis. 

But the mission has been a non-starter thus far. Lack of coordination between the district administration and CMC in identification and allotment of appropriate land inside the municipal company space has delayed the second deer park mission, it has been alleged.