India, May 28 -- An expert committee tasked by the Supreme Court to recommend steps for better management of tiger reserves in the country has proposed a complete ban on night tourism, recommended that the core and buffer zone be declared silent zones, and suggested providing arms and legal protection to forest officials, as part of a comprehensive overhaul in the management of these protected areas. The panel also dealt with the issue of tiger safaris and said remedying the illegal construction and felling of trees for the Pakhro tiger safari at Jim Corbett would involve a restoration cost of nearly Rs.30 crore. P13
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