Forest minister C P Yogeeshwar announced that a deer park would be developed at Belasinda Srivana located on the outskirts of the city.
Visiting Belasinda Srivana recently, he said the government planned to develop a deer park in the area as is it located near the national highway. Along with the deers, the park would also have two elephants .
It would be designed to act as a mini zoo. He also said that plans are afoot to plant sandalwood saplings in the region. A separate forest officer would be named to look after the sandalwood saplings.
Speaking about the increasing attacks of leopards, he said two additional cages would be kept in the region.
Zilla panchayat member N K Kishore, tahsildhar B N Varaprasadareddy, C N Ashok and others were present.
