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Release of Portal “Surakshya”
Union Environment, Forest & Climate Change Minister, Shri Prakash Javadekar and Minister of State, Shri Babul Supriyo launched Nation- al Portal on Human-Elephant conflict called “Surakshya”
on the eve of World Elephant Day in August 2020. The portal aims to collect real-time information and will also manage conflicts on
a real-time basis. It shall help to set the data collection protocols, data transmission pipelines and data visualization tools to enable poli- cy-makers to leverage HEC data for policy formulation and for prepa- ration of Action Plans for mitigation of conflicts. At present the portal shall be run on test run in the states of Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
