THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, March 29: A three-day training for Nature Guides has begun in Betla National Park under the tiger reserve Palamu.
Giving this information, the deputy director of the north division of PTR, P K Jena, said, “There has come a contingent of 29 people. These 29 are the length and breadth of the 24 districts of Jharkhand.”
Exposure to jungles, habitats, and wildlife
“It’s their exposure to the jungles, habitats, and wildlife. They have spent some time in the Forest Training School at Mahilong Ranchi, and now they are here in the PTR amidst flora and fauna,” reiterated Jena.
Jena reminded, “It’s not their schooling. It is to make them see and hear the jungles. It’s so bountiful. These 29 waiting-to-be Nature Guides are told to keep their eyes and ears open to the forests.”
How do birds manage their food?
He said, “These Nature Guides in the making were told to know how and what pug marks are, how birds manage their food, why wildlife is important for human beings, and why we should not kill snakes?”
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Jena said, “Most of the 29 people are new to the alphabet. Some are non-matriculate. A few are matriculated. But all of them have a down-to-earth knowledge of forests and animals. They know many things. This three-day training is to sharpen and replenish their traditional knowledge with the newer ones, as a happy blend of their traditional knowledge with the modern one will stand them through thick and thin in managing nature.”
After completing their 3-day training, these 29 will be put on a ‘simple oral or written test, better say, communication, just to make us understand what these 29 just couldn’t get.’
Tourist guides
Jena said, “Nature guides and tourist guides must be sensibly communicative. A tourist guide should have the gift of gab. Similarly, a nature guide has to be observant, a keen observer of things around him in the jungles.”
Numerous members of the eco-development committees do marvellous jobs, from containing forest fires to managing the rush of tourists during the peak tourism season.
These 29 are to be made active and responsible members of the eco-development committee.
Jena said, “The idea is to build a professional workforce fleet at the village level, with their capacities reshaped, refined, and retuned. It will help them to fork out and eke out their living too.”
These 29, on completion of their training, will go to their respective dwelling places.
