GUWAHATI: Alarmed over rise in the poaching of highly endangered one-horned rhinos in the Orang National Park in lower Assam, the government has decided to set up five anti-poaching camps to protect the animals.
The state's forest minister, Rockybul Hussain, had ordered a high-level probe following which chief conservator of forest, B S Bonal, D M Singh and deputy chief conservator of forest A S Laskar, accompanied by superintendent of police of Darrang and Sonitpur districts, visited the park on September 1.
After getting their report, the government ordered setting up of five new anti-poaching camps in the current financial year along with two floating camps in the river.
Twenty armed home guards would be deployed and one assistant conservator of forest would be employed to supervise the anti-poaching measures, official sources said.
While transferring the present divisional forest officer and the ranger of the park, the government announced that in the line of the Kaziranga National Park a coordination committee, comprising locals, district administration officials and the Army, would be formed.
