Nainital, Nov. 29 -- Khadi and Village Industries Commission's (KVIC) Chairman Manoj Kumar inaugurated the Re-Hab Project (Reducing Human Attacks using Honey Bees) at village Chausla, in Forest Range Fatehpur, Haldwani, District Nainital on Monday.

He also distributed 330 Bee-boxes, bee-colonies and toolkits along with the honey extractors to the rural beneficiaries in Chausla village, free of cost.

Kumar informed the gathering that KVIC is running Re-Hab project in 7 states such as Karnataka, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Assam and Orissa, where attacks of the elephants is more common, and under this project fencing of bee boxes is installed in such areas fr0m where elephants move towards the human settlements and farmers' agriculture.

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