There has been a dispute between Kuno Park management and NHAI over the highway under construction between Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh to Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan. Kuno Park Management is demanding elevated road, while NHAI says that this highway is not in the construction plan.
The fame residence of cheetahs in Madhya Pradesh has been stunned between the Kuno Park Management and the National Highways Authority (NHAI) over the highway under construction in the undeclared Cheetah Corridor between Kuno National Park in Rajasthan to Sawai Madhopur. The highway construction work has been stopped after the negotiations between the two departments failed. Now there may be talks on this issue between Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari and Union Forest Minister Bhupendra Singh to resolve the dispute.
Let me tell you that the leopards released in the open forest of Kuno National Park went from Madhya Pradesh to the forest of Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan, which were transclassed and brought back. Since then, the Forest Department has been advocating the Cheetah Corridor. However, the corridor is not yet declared. In the same area, the construction of Goras-Shyampur National Highway (552) is going on to connect Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan via Morena in Sheopur. Kuno National Park has objected to the construction of 63.400 km long highway being built at a cost of about 209 crores.
32 km area cheetah corridor
The park management says that the 32 km area of the highway is Cheetah Corridor. The part of Kuno National Park in Sheopur and Kailadevi Sanctuary in Rajasthan are preserved as a Wildlife Corridor, which is why NOC is needed for highway construction.
In this, Kuno National Park is demanding elevated road (long bridge road). So that the movement of cheetahs or wildlife can be discharged from under the bridge. While NHAI says that this highway is not in the construction plan. NHAI has argued, according to the action plan, only two hundred and fifty meters of elevated roads can be built.
Working according to the action plan
The permission of the Kuno management was duly taken before building the highway. The permission does not have conditions like elevated road. We are working according to the action plan. This has been talked about at the Delhi headquarters of the authority. – Vijay Awasthi, Deputy Engineer, NHAI MP.
Elevated road is allowed
The long elevated road in the Cheetah Corridor was given conditional permission. The National Highway is not accepting the conditions. We have spoken at a high level. – Uttam Kumar Sharma, Chief Conservator of Forests, Singh Project, MP.
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