INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hyderabad: The battle for rights over 'podu' farmlands has moved deep into the heart of tiger territory in the reserve forest in Komaram
Bheem-Asifabad district where Phalguna, a tigress who migrated from Maharashtra, resulted in revival of the fortune of its types in
Telangana state.A protest by villagers led by BJP leader Dr Palvai Harish Babu on April 8, requiring that individuals who occupied forest
land illegally in the Kadamba reserve forest block of the Penchikalpet forest variety, epitomises the dispute between people requiring
pattas over unlawfully occupied forest land and wildlife in the state
It was in the Kadamba area that Phalguna, the tigress, brought to life four cubs in 2016, the very first to be born in the combined Adilabad
Phalguna gave birth to another litter of 3 cubs, making her the poster-girl amongst tiger conservationists for revival of her types'
fortunes in Telangana state.In fact, such was the enthusiasm that Phalguna's very first litter evoked that then forests minister Jogu
Ramanna, together with Sirpur-Kagaznagar MLA from the TRS, Koneru Konappa, Mudhole MLA G
Redya Naik from Dornakal, on August 31, 2016, presenting Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao with a framed picture of Phalguna with her cubs
Even more considerably, India Post in 2018 issued a postage stamp with a photo of Phalguna with her first litter to mark her significant
contribution to Telangana's and India's tiger population
The department also provided a photo postcard of Phalguna.Before Phalguna's arrival in 2015 from the Tadoba-Andhari tiger range in
Maharashtra and her settling in the forest corridor linking the Kawal tiger reserve in Adilabad and Maharashtra, there were hardly any
tigers in the district, conserve for the odd or occasional migrant from Maharashtra
While some probably made their method back into Maharashtra, some were eliminated in the combined Adilabad district by regional poachers
According to wildlife specialists, all the tigers in northern Telangana, for many years, were picked off one by one by poachers who left
Kawal tiger reserve without a single tiger for some years
It was just in 2015 that presence of tigers, who relocated from Maharashtra, were found in the Eturunagaram Wildlife Sanctuary in the
previous Warangal district
This sanctuary too was once house to tigers however for many years, they were cleaned out by poachers.It enjoys this tiger heartland of
Telangana state, in what is now the Asifabad district, that the most recent battle over Podu land rights has actually moved into with the
BJP leaders leading people from Kondapally and a couple of others, moved into grab forest land into the reserve forest areas in Kondapally
North, Kondapally West, Kondapally South and Bombaiguda beats on April 8
The attempt to by force inhabit forest land ended with the cops removing the protesters from the forest areas and the BJP accusing the
authorities of beating up the occupiers and its leaders
At least 2 ladies authorities suffered bleeding injuries in the attacks by the villagers on the security information that looked for to kick
out the encroachers from the forest land in this episode
It might be recalled that the state federal government has actually been repeatedly assuring those practicing 'Podu' or shifting cultivation
will be offered pattas and this is believed to have actually emboldened people, in addition to leaders of political parties, including the
ruling TRS, to force the concern and keep the state forest department out of the forest locations that have actually been unlawfully
