The wooded area division is detest to be told but fast to bitch when it comes to what it sees as adverse reporting on itself. The 12 months used to be stuffed with controversies for the dep. and reporting at the beat brought out many sides of senior officials on various issues.
On issues like Pandharkawda downside tigress T1, burial of mega plantation rip-off in Wardha, bending regulations for a roundtable meet within Tadoba, makes an attempt to offer backdoor access to retired divisional managers (DMs) in Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra (FDCM), financial irregularities in social forestry division (SFD) as officials attempted to hide facts, TOI dug deep to show them.
Take the T1 case. When T1 used to be shot lifeless by means of Hyderabad based sharpshooter Asghar Ali Khan on November 2 night time, TOI used to be first to document that it used to be shot with none tranquillizing efforts. The document opened a Pandora’s Box.
The subsequent day chief flora and fauna warden used to be upset with the document chiding me for reporting that self-defence concept used to be cooked up and T1 used to be shot lifeless in chilly blood. Instead of going into violations, officials were extra taken with probing how the ultimate image of T1 alive had reached TOI.
Later, I reported a sequence of violations and the officials issued strict instructions to the body of workers not to communicate to the media. They even warned not to send any pictures from the sector or communicate to reporters as their calls were being recorded.
Post shooting, the dep. didn’t free up any data on standing of T1 cubs. Officials suspected their own males were passing data to TOI and saved them out of respectable decisions as though some defence secrets and techniques were involved.
When T1 cubs were not observed for 15 days, they were lured by means of an actual audio recording of a tigress but chief flora and fauna warden used to be fast to disclaim that recording used to be used or even requested TOI who the resources of information were. CCF Yavatmal used to be so ‘scared’ he stopped responding to calls.
Wildlife vets who had adversarial violations were warned by means of wooded area officials. A forensic professional from Karnataka used to be now not inducted in Karnataka wooded area division after a senior IFS officer from Maharashtra told his counterpart there concerning the vet exposing the wooded area division.
Even now wooded area officials, claiming to practice NTCA protocol, don't seem to be willing to factor a free up on T1 cubs’ standing, which is obligatory as in keeping with the protocol. Even because the babus criticized my stories, the state and NTCA stories on T1 bared supported TOI stories.
A couple of senior officials stooped so low they even requested publicity division why my name used to be on most sensible of the listing on division’s listing of reporters. They requested it to be brought down for causes I fail to understand.
(Vijay Pinjarkar believes the easiest way to bring out true jungle stories is to move at the ‘hunt’)
On issues like Pandharkawda downside tigress T1, burial of mega plantation rip-off in Wardha, bending regulations for a roundtable meet within Tadoba, makes an attempt to offer backdoor access to retired divisional managers (DMs) in Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra (FDCM), financial irregularities in social forestry division (SFD) as officials attempted to hide facts, TOI dug deep to show them.
Take the T1 case. When T1 used to be shot lifeless by means of Hyderabad based sharpshooter Asghar Ali Khan on November 2 night time, TOI used to be first to document that it used to be shot with none tranquillizing efforts. The document opened a Pandora’s Box.
The subsequent day chief flora and fauna warden used to be upset with the document chiding me for reporting that self-defence concept used to be cooked up and T1 used to be shot lifeless in chilly blood. Instead of going into violations, officials were extra taken with probing how the ultimate image of T1 alive had reached TOI.
Later, I reported a sequence of violations and the officials issued strict instructions to the body of workers not to communicate to the media. They even warned not to send any pictures from the sector or communicate to reporters as their calls were being recorded.
Post shooting, the dep. didn’t free up any data on standing of T1 cubs. Officials suspected their own males were passing data to TOI and saved them out of respectable decisions as though some defence secrets and techniques were involved.
When T1 cubs were not observed for 15 days, they were lured by means of an actual audio recording of a tigress but chief flora and fauna warden used to be fast to disclaim that recording used to be used or even requested TOI who the resources of information were. CCF Yavatmal used to be so ‘scared’ he stopped responding to calls.
Wildlife vets who had adversarial violations were warned by means of wooded area officials. A forensic professional from Karnataka used to be now not inducted in Karnataka wooded area division after a senior IFS officer from Maharashtra told his counterpart there concerning the vet exposing the wooded area division.
Even now wooded area officials, claiming to practice NTCA protocol, don't seem to be willing to factor a free up on T1 cubs’ standing, which is obligatory as in keeping with the protocol. Even because the babus criticized my stories, the state and NTCA stories on T1 bared supported TOI stories.
A couple of senior officials stooped so low they even requested publicity division why my name used to be on most sensible of the listing on division’s listing of reporters. They requested it to be brought down for causes I fail to understand.
(Vijay Pinjarkar believes the easiest way to bring out true jungle stories is to move at the ‘hunt’)
T1 shooting and forest dept shooting itself in the foot
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Reviewed by Kailash
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December 30, 2018
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