Lok Sabha Question No. 2220 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-11-29
Subject: Vermin Animals
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: RAMA CHANDRA HANSDAH

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 2220

TO BE ANSWERED ON 29.11.2016

## Vermin Animals

## 2220. SHRI RAMA CHANDRA HANSDAH:

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

- (a) the existing rules for notifying a wild animal in a State or an area as 'vermin';
- (b)  whether  such  notification is done  for the specific area with clear-cut  boundary description;
- (c) if so, the details thereof along with the details of such notifications in force; and
- (d) whether any aboriginal/tribal group of people are exempted from wildlife acts for killing some animals for food and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  FOR  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## (SHRI ANIL MADHAV DAVE)

- (a) Section  62  of  the  Wild  Life  (Protection)  Act,  1972  empowers  the  Central Government  to  declare  any  wild  animal  other  than  those  specified in Schedule-1 and Part -II of Schedule- II to be vermin for any area and for such period as may be specified in the notification.
- (b) and (c) Description of locations/ areas in which a wild animal has been declared as vermin, is provided in the notification. The details of notifications issued so far in this regard is given below:
- (d) Section 65 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 protects the hunting rights conferred  on  the  Scheduled  tribes  of  the  Nicobar  Islands  in  the  Union Territory  of  Andaman  and  Nicobar  Islands  by  notification  of  Andaman  and Nicobar  Administration  No.  40/67/F.  No.  G  635,  Vol.  III  dated  28 th April 1967 published at page 1-5 of the extra ordinary issue of the Andaman and Nicobar Gazette dated 28 th April 1967.

| State       |   Number of districts | Wild animals included in Sch V of W(P) Act, 1972   | Gazette notification          | Period of validity of notification   |
|-------------|-----------------------|----------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| Bihar       |                    31 | Nilgai ( Boselaphus tragocamelus )                 | S.O. 3318(E) dated 01.12.2015 | One year                             |
| Bihar       |                    10 | Wild pig ( Sus scrofa )                            | S.O. 3318(E) dated 01.12.2015 | One year                             |
| Uttarakhand |                    13 | Wild pig ( Sus scrofa )                            | S.O. 374(E) dated             | One year                             |

|                          |    |                                   | 03.02.2016                     |            |
|--------------------------|----|-----------------------------------|--------------------------------|------------|
| Himachal Pradesh- Shimla | 01 | Rhesus Macaque ( Macaca mulatta ) | S.O. 1140(E) dated 14.03. 2016 | Six months |
| Himachal Pradesh         | 10 | Rhesus Macaque ( Macaca mulatta ) | S.O. 1922(E). dated 24.05.2016 | One year   |

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