MANIT campus has been closed due to tiger entering the Bhopal NIT campus. The class has been brought back online. Cages have been kept in the campus to catch the tiger.
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A tiger entered the campus of Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal. The college is closed immediately after this incident. Immediately the forest department officials were informed and from Thursday 6 October itself MANIT Bhopal Offline class suspended. However, no one saw Tiger in the MANIT campus. But the officials of the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department said that there are tiger claw marks in the campus.
Officials of MP Forest Department said that the tiger has attacked two-three cows. MANIT Bhopal registrar Binod Dole said that taking care of the safety of the students due to the tiger incident on the campus, we have immediately stopped the offline classes.
Preparation for catching tiger in MANIT
Dole told that online classes will now run in MANIT. Offline classes can be started again next week. It depends on the tiger’s exit from the campus. Forest department officials are hopeful that in a day or two, the tiger itself will come out of the campus. Alternatively, cages have been kept at various places on the college campus. Cameras have been installed and drones are also being monitored. So that we can track the movement of the tiger.
6000 students, teachers locked in campus
MANIT Registrar told that Maulana Azad NIT, the most prestigious engineering college of the state, is spread over a total of 650 acres. Out of this, an area of about 100 acres is surrounded by dense forest. About 1000 teachers live with the family in the quarters of the campus. There are about 5 thousand students in the hostel too. All of them have been asked to stay in their rooms during the night.
Bhopal Divisional Forest Officer ie DFO Alok Pathak told that the department is looking for that tiger. He is about 2 years old i.e. able to come out easily. He also informed that tigers and leopards of Ratapani Wildlife Sanctuary spread in Sehore and Raisen districts are now being seen in Kerwa of Bhopal.
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