Sawai Madhopur : Along with tigers, the number of panthers, leopards and bears is also continuously increasing in Ranthambore Tiger Reserve located in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan. Tiger movement is often seen in the villages adjacent to Ranthambore. Now after Tiger, movement of Panther, Leopard and Bears has also started being seen in populated areas. In many villages including Talawada, Goth Bihari, Nimli, Jaitpur, Baharawanda, Naipur of Khandar area adjacent to Ranthambore, bears come out of the forests of Ranthambore at night and enter the populated areas, due to which the villagers remain in panic.Previous For about 10-15 days, there is panic among the villagers due to the visit of bear in Goth Bihari village of Talawada in Khandar area adjacent to Ranthambore. Bears come to Talawada and Goth Bihari villages almost every night and try to break the doors of shops and houses. The villagers have informed the forest officials several times about the movement of bears in the populated area of the village, but still no action has been taken.
Bear roaming in the streets of the village
Neeraj, Kailash, Mukesh and other villagers told that as soon as night falls, the bear comes out of the forests of Ranthambore and comes to the populated area of the village and keeps roaming in the streets of the village. Due to this, an atmosphere of fear remains among the villagers all the time. Not only this, the bear also tries to break the doors of people’s houses in search of food and drinks at night. The bear had broken the door of Mukesh Yogi’s shop in the village and had eaten the sweets, jaggery and other food items kept in the shop.
complaint to forest officials
Similarly, the bear broke the door of village Bhairuji’s temple and entered the temple and ate the ghee, jaggery and sweets kept in the temple. The villagers say that they requested the forest officials several times to catch the bear and release it somewhere else, but no action was taken. Similarly, bears also come to the shops built in the Trinetra Ganesh temple complex located in Ranthambore Fort at night. Many times the bear breaks the doors of shops and warehouses and eats sweets, ghee and other food items.
Bear entering shops
Shopkeepers tightly close the doors of sweets and prasad shops located in Ranthambore Fort every night. In such a situation, if the door of any shop remains even slightly weak, then at night the bear breaks it and eats the sweets and ghee. Not only this, many times the bear also makes holes in the walls of raw shops and warehouses to eat ghee and sweets.
keeping sweets in iron drums
There is always movement of bears in the Trinetra Ganesh Temple complex located in Ranthambore Fort. Troubled by this, shopkeepers leave food items like sweets and ghee and jaggery in iron boxes, cupboards or iron drums in the evening. So that we can be protected from bears. This trend has been going on for years in Ranthambore Fort, but in the rural areas adjacent to Ranthambore, the movement of bears has gradually started increasing, due to which the villagers always remain in fear.
