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The government says that tourism will increase in the area due to the arrival of cheetahs, but behind the noise of cheetahs, a ‘black truth’ seems to be suppressed. There is acute malnutrition and poverty in the villages around the forest and sanctuary in which these cheetahs brought from Namibia will live. People lack employment. Sheopur district is also known as Ethiopia of India.
The NDTV team reached Kakra, one such village located between Shivpuri and Sheopur. There, the pictures which the NDTV team got to see, never surfaced in the media. It is being told in the media that how big changes will happen in the area due to the arrival of cheetahs. It is also true that changes can happen, but as wildlife experts say, it will take about 20-25 years for these changes to happen. These changes can come when there will be a large population of cheetahs in these forests and tourists will come to see them.
MP: ‘Black truth’ buried behind the noise of cheetahs, severe malnutrition and failure in nearby villages, see – NDTV report pic.twitter.com/Q8ktyD2xbP
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In Sheopur district, more than 21 thousand children are suffering from malnutrition. This figure was given by the Madhya Pradesh government in a written reply in the assembly. Two weeks ago, a girl child died of malnutrition in the same district. The officials definitely did this that as soon as the children above five years were removed in the figures of malnutrition, they were removed from that list and in this way the malnutrition ended on paper.
In the village where the NDTV team reached near the National Park, two to three children are also malnourished.
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In the conversation, the people of the village told that there is no employment here but there is extreme poverty. Children are malnourished. When they were asked that if cheetahs are being released here, then it will be of some benefit to you, the villagers said that we will not get anything from cheetahs. Their arrival will not make any difference to our situation.
Let us tell, in the area where Kuno National Park is located, there are about 23 villages that are suffering from poverty and malnutrition. Their population is about 56,000.
It is not that a particular political party has dominated this area, but the representatives of both the BJP and Congress have been winning from here for decades, but their attention did not go towards the basic needs of the people of this area.
