Forest Dept Expedites Wildlife Victim Compensation Payments

The forest department in Adilabad is making it faster to get money when wild animals hurt people or their property.

If a wild animal kills your cow or damages your crops, you can now apply for money through a government service called MeeSeva.

Forest officers will check what happened, and then the money will be sent straight to your bank account.

For cattle kills, you can get some money quickly, like a small payment right away, and the rest within about a week.

For big problems like a person dying because of a wild animal, the compensation is much larger, ₹10 lakh.

This is being done because before, people had to wait a very long time to get paid, which made them very unhappy.