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Maneka Gandhi and Prakash Javadekar locked in debate over nilgai culling

| | Jun 09, 2016, at 06:21 pm
New Delhi, Jun 9 (IBNS): Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar and Union Women and Child Welfare Minister Maneka Gandhi are locked in debate over the culling of nilgais that have been identified as crop depredators, according to media reports.
Reportedly, 200 nilgais (blue bulls) and a wild boar were killed in Bihar recently and such cullings have been happening in a few other states too.
 
The blue bull is said to be the largest Asian antelope and endemic to the Indian subcontinent.
 
Maneka Gandhi blamed the Javadekar-led ministry of giving permission to kill the endangered animals, calling the culling a "massacre" in a televised comment reported by NDTV.
 
Prakash Javadekar has countered Maneka Gandhi's allegations by saying that his department gives permission if states ask for it to prevent animals from destroying crops, media reported. Javadekar called is a "scientific management" while talking to NDTV.

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