(IN) Accountablity for Tiger Numbers at Panna!!!!

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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Radhika Singh <princess_rads10

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> There we go again…on a wild-goose chase and passing the buck!

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> " ....to Albert Speer, who having always denied knowledge of the Holocaust

> had said that he was at fault in having 'looked away': You can't look away

> from something you don't know. If you looked away,then you knew. " - Gitta

> Sereny (recalled on BBC2 Reputations,2nd May 1996)

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> Warm Regards

> Radhika Singh

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> Accountability to be fixed for inflated Panna tiger numbers

> 25 Jun 2009, 1144 hrs IST, IANS

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> KOLKATA, June 24 (IANS) The central government will fix accountability for

> the exaggerated projection of the tiger population in Madhya Pradesh's

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> Panna forest reserve, minister of state for environment and forests Jairam

> Ramesh said.

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> The central government will also take follow-up action on the disappearance

> of the big cats from the sanctuary with an investigation team fixing the

> blame on poachers.

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> " Initial figures said the tiger population was 30. Our own estimate was

> that the figure was exaggerated. Now, it has been proved beyond doubt that

> the number of tigers there is effectively zero, " Ramesh told newspersons

> here.

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> The minister said the Special Investigation Team probing the disappearance

> of the big cats has given a report to him stating most of the tigers in the

> sanctuary were killed by poachers.

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> " We will fix accountability for this, " he said. The minister said

> henceforth central allocation for the various tiger projects will be made on

> the basis of a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU).

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> Altogether 37 MOUs among the central and state governments and authorities

> of the respective tiger projects will be inked, he said. The matter is

> likely to get the cabinet nod in two to three weeks, he said.

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