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The forest officials said that precautions have been taken to prevent the fire from spreading to residential areas.
The major tourist attractions of the district, the jungle safaris in Muthanga near Sulthan Bathery, Tholpetty near Mananthavadi and most of the waterfalls and trekking trails have been closed for the last two weeks.
Not just the wildlife tourism zones, trekking trails and waterfalls across the district under the control of the Forest Department have been closed to visitors.
While the RRT could track the signals from the radio collar, the elephant kept shifting its location.
It was while responding to an adjournment motion moved by Kalpetta MLA T Siddique that the minister made two improper comments.
As the elephant has moved to the Mannundi region, signals from its radio collar are not currently receiving, said an official.
There was serious lethargy on the part of Karnataka's top forest officials in tracking technology transfer including sharing tracking passwords and user ID, exclusive tracking gadgets and frequency details of the problem elephant Belur Makhna to the Kerala counterparts despite repeated requests.
The Forest Minister was talking to the media on the sidelines of the high-level meeting convened to discuss the failure of the forest dept in tracking Belur Makana and the alleged lack of inter-state coordination.
According to the order issued by the Principal Chief Forest conservator (Wildlife) and Chief Wildlife warden, Kerala, D Jayaprasad, trained captive elephants will be used to drive away the wild elephants to the forest.
Ajeesh's relative said the government assured them that all their debts would be written off as he was the sole breadwinner of the family.