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

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

 

" ....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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Accountability to be fixed for inflated Panna tiger numbers

25 Jun 2009, 1144 hrs IST, IANS

 

 

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

exaggerated projection of the tiger population in Madhya Pradesh's

 

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

Ramesh said.

 

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.

 

" 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.

 

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.

 

" 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).

 

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.