A new panel has been set up by the ministry of environment and forests to decide eco-tourism guidelines in core areas and peripheral buffer zones of tiger reserves, and submit a report within 10 days.
The panel\'s creation comes on the back of ministry\'s commitment to the Supreme Court that it would review its proposed norms on eco-tourism and get back to the SC with a final version by September 29.
The new panel includes two wildlife scientists K Ullas Karanth and Wildlife Institute of India\'s Y V Jhala. Also, there are Brijendra Singh, considered close to the Gandhi family and a member of the National Board of Wildlife, Raghu Chundawat, a tiger expert and a resort-owner in Madhya Pradesh, Shekhar Dattari a wildlife filmmaker, Swathi Sheshadri of Equations, an NGO that works on tourism, Tushar Das of NGO Vasundhra, which works on tribal rights, and Arun Bhatnagar, a retired bureaucrat a sper a report in TOI by Nitin Sethi.
In addition, the committee will have representatives from tribal affairs, tourism and panchayati raj ministries, besides chief wildlife wardens of MP, UP, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Assam.
The member secretary of the National Tiger Conservation Authority will serve as convener on the committee.
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