# 500 forest personnel will be deployed for night patrol

- ID: P08-B-06#2
- Page: https://sollumseyalum.web.app/promise/p08-b-06-2 (Tamil: https://sollumseyalum.web.app/ta/promise/p08-b-06-2)
- Pillar: 8. Healthcare and Environment
- Section: B. Protecting Tamil Nadu's Future: Environmental, Forest, and Climate Change Concerns
- Manifesto page: 76
- Stage: In the budget (Named in the budget speech; an amount may or may not be given)
- Last recorded: 5 Aug 2026
- Data licence: CC BY-NC 4.0. Curated commitments, translations, evidence links and stage analysis compiled by Sollum Seyalum (https://sollumseyalum.web.app).

## Promised in the manifesto

500 forest protection personnel equipped with Gps-connected vehicles will be deployed on security duty at night.

## Where it stands

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.

**So far:** Funding for appointment of forest protection staff and Gps-enabled vehicles.

**Not yet seen:** The deployment of 500 specific personnel for night patrolling duty is not yet confirmed.

_Summary written by AI from the documents below, with figures checked against them._

## Documents behind this

- 5 Aug 2026 · Budget speech · Revised 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. ([Open the document (Budget speech)](https://sollumseyalum.web.app/docs/budget_speech.pdf#page=64))

> Sources are government releases, budget papers and orders. They show what the government says it will do or has done. They are claims, not independent confirmation. "Nothing recorded" means nothing in our sources, not that nothing was done.