By IANS,
Raipur : Over 50 percent posts have been lying vacant in the three Project Tiger reserves in Chhattisgarh, Forest Minister Vikram Usendi said Wednesday.
“As many as 219 posts of the total 420 posts sanctioned for Project Tiger reserves – Indravati, Udanti-Sitanadi and Achanakmar – are lying vacant till date,” the minister said in a written reply to Bahujan Samaj Party’s Saurabh Singh.
Usendi said it was not possible for him to set a deadline by when the vacant posts would be filled up.
The forest officials do not have access to the Indravati tiger reserve in Bijapur district of restive Bastar region as the Maoists do not allow them to enter the reserve. “The tiger count at the Indravati reserve was not undertaken for several years,” an official said.