Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh): Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Forest and Environment Pawan Kalyan on Sunday inaugurated the Kumki elephant training centre in the state’s Chittoor district.

The 20-acre centre has come up at Musalimadugu village, adjoining the Koundinya Wildlife Sanctuary in Palamaner mandal, to train Kumki elephants to monitor and contain the movement of wild elephants straying into human habitations.

It was in May that Andhra Pradesh brought four Kumki elephants from Karnataka to contain wild jumbos straying into villages.

The wild jumbos are entering Andhra Pradesh from neighbouring Tamil Nadu and Karnataka through the Mudumalai and Bannerghatta sanctuaries on the fringes of the Western Ghats. They often stray into farmlands and cause extensive dama

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