Bhopal:
A driver who was seen offering a cheetah and his cubs in a viral video offering water at the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh, has been fired after initiating a disciplinary action against them for violating official instructions.
Was a man hired for the duties of the forest department See Jwala giving water in a steel bowl – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s project cheetah – and is one of those animals translated from Namibia under his four cubs.
The video also told him that “Come” is replying immediately with Jwala. Then he contacted her calmly and started drinking with the bowl. The cub also followed his mother.
An official said that a disciplinary action was initiated as the field staff violated the instructions and showed disciplinary.
In addition, a video was made and shared in the media disregarding every discipline and instructions in this regard. Action is being taken against the employees concerned, “Additional Chief Chief Chief Conservator Forests (APCCF) UTTAM Kumar Sharma was said by news agency PTI on Sunday.
He said that Jwala and his four cubs were going to the fields close to the human residence in the Agra range near the border of KNP.
“Monitoring team, generally, has been instructed that whenever such a situation arises, an attempt was made to bring back/woo the cheetah inside the forest to create a human-chanting struggle.
Since Cheetah Jwala and his four cubs were constantly moving forward in the open agricultural areas in the sun and were going towards the human residence, water was offered to bring them back towards the forest, he said.
“One of the drivers of the vehicle (a daily stake) hired for the duties of the Forest Department in Range Agra, Kuno WLD, gave Jwala water in a steel bowl and its four cubs. There are clear instructions to close clear instructions to shut off clear instructions to get away from Cheetah. Sharma said. Sharma said.
Currently, 17 cheetahs, including 11 cubs born on Indian soil, are roaming in the wild in the park, while nine are in enclosures.
In September 2022, eight Namibian cheetahs, five women and three males, were released in KNP in KNP, marking the first intercontinental translation of big cats. In February 2023, 12 more cheetahs were translated from South Africa to the sanctuary.
The protected forest now has 26 cheetahs, including 14 India -born cubs.
