Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh is ready to welcome eight Namibian cheetahs on Saturday as authorities battled heavy rain, inclement climate and a few blocked roads to finish preparations for the prime minister’s program to launch the large cats. are.
Officials stated the particular cargo aircraft, which had departed from Namibia on Friday, will land at Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh as a substitute of Rajasthan’s Jaipur between 6 am and 6:30 am, as was earlier deliberate.
The animals will then be taken to Kuno in Sheopur district (165 km away) by an Air Force helicopter, which can take round 20-25 minutes.
Gwalior SP Amit Sanghi advised The Indian Express, “We predict the plane carrying the cheetahs to land at Gwalior airbase early morning. All vital preparations shall be made to make sure speedy and easy transition. ,
Two days earlier than the arrival of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior-Chambal area acquired heavy rains, casting a shadow on the cheetah program. The closing approval was given to this system on Thursday itself, after which the preparations began in full swing.
Heavy safety was put in place on the slender single-lane street resulting in Kuno on Friday. Posters and banners celebrating the arrival of cheetahs have been put up 18 kilometers exterior the Tiktoli entrance of Kuno. An worker of the forest division stated: “We got these posters only yesterday, but they were not put up due to heavy rains.”
The PM is predicted to succeed in Kuno within the morning and launch 5 feminine and three male cheetahs into two quarantine enclosures. He will work together with forest employees together with cheetah mates, Anganwadi ladies and cheetah caretakers. Saturday additionally occurs to be PM’s birthday.
After the Cheetah program, the PM will work together with the ladies of self-help teams in one other program in Karahal. More than 1.2 lakh ladies shall be current on the venue.
Meanwhile, the Special Protection Group searched Kuno’s roads and forests, whereas officers organized for medical camps and water at parking tons. Over two hours of rehearsals have been additionally carried out, together with a helicopter touchdown check at two of the 5 newly constructed helipads.
The 20-kilometer street main from Kuno to a different location in Karahal was paved with a brand new layer of tar. The signage demarcating the roads constructed below the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana was additionally repainted.
More than 5,000 police personnel from a number of districts together with two dozen IPS officers together with DCP, IG and DGP reached Sheopur to take inventory of the preparations.
Ramesh Singh Sikharwar, a former dacoit, now inducted as a Cheetah Mitra, is amongst those that have been known as to Kuno to carry talks with the Prime Minister.
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Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Jyotiraditya Scindia will attend this system. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who was to go to Sheopur on Friday, modified the final minute and determined to return straight earlier than the PM’s arrival on Saturday.
The solely lodge in Sheopur with a capability of twenty-two rooms was taken over by the district administration to deal with senior state officers. Rest homes of the Forest Department and the District Collectorate proved to be insufficient, forcing many of the officers to dwell adjoining to the Shivpuri district.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
