Solarised carts to help sight migratory birds at Sukhna

UT Adviser flags off two battery-operated vehicles

Box: Free service

The service will be available free of cost. The carts will be available near the police post at the main entry to the lake.

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 22

The Department of Forest and Wildlife, UT, today launched two solarised carts to facilitate people of the City Beautiful in sighting migratory birds at Sukhna Lake.

UT Adviser Manoj Parida, in the presence of Arun Kumar Gupta, Home Secretary-cum-Principal Secretary (Forests), other senior officials of the UT Administration and general public, flagged off the carts for providing free service to people, especially senior citizens, pregnant women, physically challenged persons, etc.

Parida appreciated the unique initiative taken by the Department of Forest and Wildlife for running these carts on solar energy using a battery-operated system, which will create no pollution.

Debendra Dalai, Chief Conservator of Forests, UT, informed that every year hundreds of migratory birds like common pochard, red-crested pochard, geese, shell ducks, marsh ducks, diving ducks, coots, stilts, hill kingfisher, mallard, pintail, cormorants, Siberian ducks, cranes, storks, sandpipers, etc, travel thousands of miles to reach Sukhna Lake to escape the harsh cold of their habitats. These migratory birds start arriving from early November and their stay lasts till March or April, depending on the climatic conditions.