It was asked by many Nature Lovers if Tadoba National Park is closed for tourism.
It's true that Hon.PCCF (Wildlife) of Maharashtra State had issued the orders about the closure of Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) for Tourism from 25th December 2008.
The background behind this panic decision, taken by Hon. PCCF (Wildlife) and Hon. Field Director, Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, was lack of Field-Staff and responsible officers in the Park.
Only three responsible officers (Hon. Filed Director, an ACF and a RFO) were managing the park when this panic decision was taken.
The Posts sanctioned for the smooth Management of the Park are - A Field Director(IFS), An ACF (MFS) and 5 RFO's (MFS).
Out of these, as I had already said, only 2 RFO's were working in the Park, of which one RFO was on the training at WII, Deharadun.
So there was only one RFO looking after 4 offices and one Subordinate Round Officer was handling the Charge of Kolsa RFO, who was on training.
This situation was very badly affecting the whole management of TATR. Resulting into the fustration and thus leading the mentality of only working RFO towards Voluntary Reitirement.
Hon. Field Director and PCCF (Wildlife) tried to acquaint government's attention towards this problem but they were failed to get the officers.
Finally they decided to stop tourism till further order so as to reduce atleast some pressure on the park management and subsequently issued and published the orders in various media.
Now it's the time when government came into action, admitted and fulfilled the demand of Park Mangement and sent the required number of RFO's to Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve.
Just before the closure of Park for tourism, i.e. on 25th December, the previous order was cancelled and Tadoba was not closed even for a single day.
The cancellation of orders, regarding closure of Tadoba for tourism, neither attracted proper attention of various media nor government has given due publicity, thus the situation of dilemma continued in the minds of Nature and Wildlife Lovers.
Today TATR is flourishing as one of the best Tiger breeding center. It has a great ratio of Tiger sighting alongwith other major manmals and birds as well as rich variety of Plants.
SO DEAR FRIENDS, NOW YOU MUST HAVE UNDERSTOOD, WHY TADOBA WAS SET TO CLOSE FOR TOURISM BUT IT'S ONLY THE GOOD LUCK OF TADOBA THAT IT WAS NEVER CLOSED.
I MUST ADMIT & PRAISE, FOR ALL THEIR SINCERE EFFORTS, HON. FIELD DIRECTOR (TATR) & HON. PCCF (WILDLIFE) MAHARASHTRA STATE FOR THEIR DEDICATION & SUCCESSFULL STRUGGLE FOR THE CAUSE OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF TADOBA-ANDHARI TIGER RESERVE.
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