Lok Sabha Question No. 13 (STARRED), answered on 2018-02-02
Subject: Ruckus by Wild Animals
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: P.K.SREEMATHI TEACHER, PARAYAMPARANBIL KUTTAPPAN BIJU

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION No. *13

TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.02.2018

## Ruckus by Wild Animals

## *13.     SHRIMATI P.K. SREEMATHI TEACHER: DR. P.K. BIJU:

Will  the  Minister  of  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND  CLIMATE  CHANGE  be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  received  information  about  the  loss  of  life  and property and the damage to crops due to ruckus created by elephants/wild animals in the country including Kerala during the last three years and current year;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State/ UT- wise and year-wise;
- (c) whether there is any system in place for compensation for losses to farmers in the country due to destruction of crops by elephants/wild animals and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) the rate and the amount of compensation disbursed during the said period in this regard along with the details of the number of beneficiaries, State/UT wise; and
- (e) the  details  of  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  prevent  such  ruckus  by elephants/wild  animals  in  the  States  including  Kerala  and  provide  adequate compensation to affected persons?

## ANSWER

MINISTER FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE (DR. HARSH VARDHAN)

(a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) OF THE LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *13 REGARDING 'RUCKUS BY WILD ANIMALS' BY SHRIMATI P.K. SREEMATHI TEACHER AND DR. P.K. BIJU DUE FOR REPLY ON 02.02.2018.

- (a)&(b) State  wise  details  of  the  loss  of  property  and  the  damage  to  crops  due  to elephants/tigers  are  not  collated  in  the  Ministry.  However,  the  State-wise details of loss of human lives due to elephant and tiger, during the last three years and current year, as available in the Ministry, is given in Annexure-I and Annexure-II .
- (c) It is the responsibility of the State Government/UTs administrations to make the provisions for paying compensation for loss to farmers due to destruction of  crop  caused  by  elephants  and  tigers.  However,  the  Central  Government provides  financial  assistance  to  the  States/  Union  Territory  Governments under  the  Centrally  Sponsored  Schemes  of  'Integrated  Development  of Wildlife Habitats', 'Project Tiger' and 'Project Elephant', inter alia, to  make payment  of ex-gratia relief.   The  amount  of ex-gratia relief  eligible  for assistance under the Centrally Sponsored Schemes for payment to the victims of predation/depredation by wild animals, is as follows:
- (d) The state wise details of the  number of beneficiaries and rates of compensation  are  not  collated  in  the  Ministry.  However,  the      details  of compensation  paid  for  loss  of  life  and  loss  of  crop/property,  caused  by elephants, is given in Annexure- III and IV .
- (e) The Government has taken following remedial measures to prevent ruckus by elephant/wild animal:
- (i) Ministry through its Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) namely 'Project  Tiger',  'Project  Elephant'  and  'Integrated  Development of  Wildlife  Habitats  (IDWH)'  provides  funds  to  States  and  UTs for  carrying  various  activities  for  habitat  improvement  works namely  restoration  of  natural  water  bodies,  creation  of  artificial ponds,  waterholes,  augmenting  food/fodder  sources  at  various places  within  Protected  Areas  to  minimize  the  human  animal conflict.
- (ii) Ministry has also formulated a scheme 'Augmentation of Fodder & Water Scheme in Protected Areas/Forest Areas' under central component of the fund managed by Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management  and Planning Authority  (CAMPA).  The scheme is primarily for augmentation of fodder and water sources for  wild  herbivores  within  the  Protected  Area/Forests  where degraded habitat is known to be the cause of significant humanwildlife conflict.
- (iii) The Ministry has issued guidelines in context of human-wildlife

| Sl. No.   | Nature of damage caused by wild animals   | Amount of ex-gratia relief                             |
|-----------|-------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
| (a)       | Death or permanent incapacitation         | Rs. 2,00,000/-                                         |
| (b)       | Grievous injury                           | 30% of (a)                                             |
| (c)       | Minor injury                              | Cost of treatment                                      |
| (d)       | Loss of property                          | Value of loss/damage as assessed by authorized officer |

conflict to the Chief Wildlife Wardens of all the State Governments/Union Territory Administrations dated 24 th December, 2014 and 1 st June, 2015.

- (iv) Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs): The National Tiger Conservation Authority has issued following three SOPs to deal with man-animal conflict which are available in public domain:
-  To deal with emergency raising due to straying of tigers in human dominated     landscapes
-  To deal with tiger depredation on livestock
-  For active management towards rehabilitation of tigers from source areas at the landscape level.

The  three  SOPs inter alia include the issue  of  managing dispersing tigers, managing  livestock  kills  so  as to  reduce conflict  as  well  as  relocating  tigers  from  source  areas  to  areas where density of tiger is low, so that conflict in rich source areas does not occur.

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ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (A)  AND  (B)  OF  LOK SABHA  STARRED  QUESTION  NO.  *13  REGARDING  'RUCKUS  BY  WILD ANIMALS' BY SHRIMATI P.K. SREEMATHI TEACHER AND DR. P.K. BIJU DUE FOR REPLY ON 02.02.2018.

## Number of Human Deaths caused by elephant during the last three years and the current year

| S. No.         | State     |   2014-15 | 2015-16   | 2016-17   | 2017-18 (upto November 2017)       | Remarks   |
|----------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|------------------------------------|-----------|
| 1 Andhra       | 2         |         0 | 2         | 3         |                                    |           |
| 2 Arunachal    | 1         |         1 | NR        | NR        |                                    |           |
| 3 Assam        | 54        |        31 | 91        | 31        |                                    |           |
| Chhattisgarh   | 32        |        59 | 67        | NR        |                                    | 4         |
| Jharkhand      | 53        |        66 | 59        | 38        |                                    | 5         |
| Karnataka      | 53        |        47 | 49        | 9         | (2017-18 figure is upto 16.8.2017) | 6         |
| 7 Kerala       | 20        |         6 | 22        | NR        |                                    |           |
| Maharashtra    | 3         |         0 | 0         | NR        |                                    | 8         |
| Meghalaya      | 3         |         9 | NR        | NR        |                                    | 9         |
| Nagaland       | 1         |         1 | 1         | NR        |                                    | 10        |
| Odisha         | 64        |        63 | 65        | 42        |                                    | 11        |
| Tamil Nadu     | 31        |        47 | 43        | 36        |                                    | 12        |
| Tripura        | 1         |         0 | 2         | NR        |                                    | 13        |
| Uttar          | 1         |         0 | 3         | 1         |                                    | 14        |
| 15 Uttarakhand | 7         |         7 | 4         | NR        |                                    |           |
| 16 West        | Bengal 89 |       112 | 84        | 41        |                                    |           |
| Total          |           |       415 | 449       | 492 201   |                                    |           |

NR-Not Received

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (A)  AND  (B)  OF  LOK SABHA  STARRED  QUESTION  NO.  *13  REGARDING  'RUCKUS  BY  WILD ANIMALS' BY SHRIMATI P.K. SREEMATHI TEACHER AND DR. P.K. BIJU DUE FOR REPLY ON 02.02.2018.

## Details of incidents of tiger attacks on human beings during the last three years and the current year in and around tiger reserves as report by States

| S. No.   | State             |   2015 |   2016 |   2017 |   2018 |   Total |
|----------|-------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|---------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh    |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 3        | Assam             |      0 |      0 |      1 |      0 |       1 |
| 4        | Bihar             |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh      |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 6        | Delhi             |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 7        | Jharkhand         |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 8        | Karnataka         |      1 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       1 |
| 9        | Kerala            |      3 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       3 |
| 10       | Madhya Pradesh    |      5 |      5 |      0 |      0 |      10 |
| 11       | Maharashtra       |      1 |      2 |      5 |      1 |       9 |
| 12       | Mizoram           |      0 |      0 |      1 |      0 |       1 |
| 13       | Nagaland          |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 14       | Odisha            |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 15       | Rajasthan         |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 16       | Tamil Nadu        |      1 |      1 |      0 |      0 |       2 |
| 17       | Telangana         |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
| 18       | Uttar Pradesh     |      0 |      5 |     12 |      0 |      17 |
| 19       | Uttarakhand       |      1 |      2 |      2 |      0 |       5 |
| 20       | West Bengal       |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |       0 |
|          | TOTAL             |     12 |     15 |     21 |      1 |      49 |

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (D)  OF  LOK  SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *13 REGARDING 'RUCKUS BY WILD ANIMALS' BY SHRIMATI P.K. SREEMATHI TEACHER AND DR. P.K. BIJU DUE FOR REPLY ON 02.02.2018.

## Amount of compensation paid for loss of life by elephant during the last three years and the current year

| S.No.       | State              | 2014-15   | 2015-16   | 2016-17   | 2017-18 (upto November 2017)   |
|-------------|--------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------------------------------|
| 1 Andhra    | 11                 | 0         | 10        | 15        |                                |
| 2           | Arunachal Pradesh  | 1         | 1         | NR        | NR                             |
| 3 Assam     | 35                 | 0         |           | 167.4     | 0                              |
| 4           | Chhattisgarh 75.46 | 218       |           | 241.75    | NR                             |
| 5 Jharkhand | 107.5              | 184.9     |           | 110.179   | 56.12                          |
| 6 Karnataka | 253.5              | 228       | 235       |           | 45                             |
| 7 Kerala    | 61                 | NR        | NR        | NR        |                                |
| 8           | Maharashtra 15     | 0         | 0         | NR        |                                |
| 9 Meghalaya | 7                  | 11.35     | NR        | NR        |                                |
| Nagaland    | 2                  | 1         |           | 0 NR      | 10                             |
| 11          | 137.9              | 106.35    | 251.33    | 67        | Odisha                         |
| 12 Tamil    | Nadu 93            | 141       |           | 119.25    | 54.5                           |
| 13 Tripura  | 0                  | 2         |           | NR        | NR                             |
| 14 Uttar    | 1                  | 0         |           |           | 0                              |
| 15          | Uttarakhand 18.5   | 23.03     |           | 9.3       | NR                             |
| 16          | West Bengal        | 105.41    | 228       | 162.5     | 103.14                         |
| Total       |                    | 924.27    | 1144.63   | 1321.709  | 340.76                         |

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (D)  OF  LOK  SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *13 REGARDING 'RUCKUS BY WILD ANIMALS' BY SHRIMATI P.K. SREEMATHI TEACHER AND DR. P.K. BIJU DUE FOR REPLY ON 02.02.2018.

## Amount of compensation paid for loss crop/property damage by elephant during the last three years and the current year

| S.No.   | State             |   2014-15 |   2015-16 | 2016-17   | 2017-18 (upto November 2017)   |
|---------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------------------------------|
| 1       | Andhra Pradesh    |    83.077 |    78.988 | 53.081    | 30.963                         |
| 2       | Arunachal Pradesh |    39.99  |    20.9   | NR        | NR                             |
| 3       | Assam             |     1.62  |     0     | 222       | 0                              |
| 4       | Chhattisgarh      |   269.63  |   963.261 | 1425.86   | NR                             |
| 5       | Jharkhand         |   501.57  |   485.95  | 428.92    | 146.82                         |
| 6       | Karnataka         |  1239.38  |   705.5   | 709.65    | NR                             |
| 7       | Kerala            |   264.59  |   281.051 | 286.585   | NR                             |
| 8       | Maharashtra       |   123.43  |   155.22  | 45.48     | NR                             |
| 9       | Meghalaya         |    14.95  |   227.45  | NR        | NR                             |
| 10      | Nagaland          |     4.6   |     7.86  | NR        | NR                             |
| 11      | Odisha            |   979.7   |   586.99  | 1178.25   | 244.3                          |
| 12      | Tamil Nadu        |   255.44  |   250.76  | 237.01    | 97.86                          |
| 13      | Tripura           |     0.91  |     0.914 | 0         | NR                             |
| 14      | Uttar Pradesh     |     0     |     0     | 10.98     | 3.51                           |
| 15      | Uttarakhand       |    25.5   |    51.34  | 10.71     | NR                             |
| 16      | West Bengal       |   475.54  |   477.78  | 225.05    | 398.91                         |
| Total   |                   |  4279.93  |  4293.96  | 4833.576  | 922.363                        |

NR-Not Received