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500 forest personnel will be deployed for night patrol
500 forest protection personnel equipped with Gps-connected vehicles will be deployed on security duty at night.
From the manifesto: Inbam (Joy) › 8. Healthcare and Environment › B. Protecting Tamil Nadu's Future: Environmental, Forest, and Climate Change Concerns, see page 76
In the budget speech on 5 Aug 2026.
The government set aside Rs.20 crore to fund forest protection staffing and Gps-enabled vehicle support.
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Documents behind this
- 5 Aug 2026 · Budget speechRevised Budget speech 2026-27, page 64
- A comprehensive human-wildlife-conflict mitigation scheme will be introduced, incorporating scientific measures such as hanging solar fences and steel wire rope fencing, community-based protection of forests, appointment of forest protection staff, and Gps-enabled vehicles for conflict management, night patrolling, security and monitoring, across 100 conflict-prone villages in Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Dindigul, Erode, Krishnagiri, The Nilgiris, Salem, Theni, Tirunelveli, Tenkasi and Tiruppur districts, with an amount of Rs.20 crore allocated.
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