925 killed in elephant attacks in 10 years, fear of Gajraj in Odisha

Bhubaneswar: Talking about the last ten years in Odisha, a record number of people have died in elephant attacks. 925 people lost their lives in elephant attacks. State Forest, Environment and Climate Change Minister Pradeep Amat gave this information in the assembly on Tuesday. He told that at least 925 people have died in elephant attacks between 2012 and 2022. Minister Pradeep Amat was answering the questions of the BJP MLA.

Responding to a question by BJP member Lalitendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra, the Forest Minister said that 925 people have been killed in elephant attacks in Odisha during the last 10 years. Also said that 212 people have become physically handicapped. Human casualties in elephant attacks increased from 80 in 2012-13 to 105 in 2017-18 and 112 in 2021-22.

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Most deaths in the year 2020-21

The maximum number of 139 people died in elephant attacks in the year 2020-21, while 117 people died in such incidents in 2019-20 and 112 in 2021-22. Similarly, the number of permanently disabled people in elephant attacks in the state also increased from five in 2012-13 to 51 in 2021-22. Not only humans lost their lives due to the attack of elephants. In fact, 784 elephants have also died in the state in the last 10 years.

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Where 82 elephants died in 2012-13. Whereas this figure was 86 in 2015-16, 93 in 2018-19 and 86 in 2021-22. During this period, the Odisha government investigated the incidents of death of 39 elephants. In which charge sheet was filed against 50 people. However, not a single accused has been convicted in these cases so far. In another written statement, Odisha’s Forest Minister said that poachers killed 11 wild elephants during 2022-23. As per the last elephant census conducted in 2017, there are 1,976 elephants in Odisha.