Centre Launches “Surakhsya”- National Portal on Human-Elephants Conflict

Union Environment Minister, Prakash Javadekar and Minister of State in the Environment Ministry, Babul Supriyo jointly launched a beta version of a portal on Human-Elephants Conflict called “Surakhsya” on the eve of World Elephant Day (12 August) in New Delhi.
Surakhsya is a National Portal on human elephant conflict to help in collection of real time information as well as managing the conflicts on a real time basis to help in policy formulation and for preparation of Action Plans for mitigation of conflicts.
The portal will help policy-makers to leverage HEC data to frame the data collection protocols, data transmission pipelines and data visualization tools.
The beta version of the portal is currently being launched for data testing before the pan India roll out for adoption by the states.
Shri Javadekar also released a booklet on “Best practices of Human-Elephant Conflict Management in India” during the event.