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Kota: Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje Friday accused the Congress government of mismanagement over the death of a tigress at the Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve, and said the re-introduction project of the big cat should be taken with seriousness. The nine-year-old full-term pregnant tigress — MT-4 — died on Thursday, with officials saying it was pregnant with three cubs and suffering from severe constipation. Dubbing the death of the tigress as devastating, Raje said it was yet another setback for the tiger project.

After getting permission from NTCA, the process for shifting of T-104 has been cleared and soon after about three-and-a-half-year T-104 will be shifted from the enclosure built at Bhid Naka in Ranthambore. There was a demand to shift T-104 elsewhere. In the past, a committee was formed by the Forest Department to study the nature of T-104. The committee

In July, a proposal was prepared by the Chief Wildlife Warden of the Forest Department to shift T-104 to the enclosure built in Mukundara. In this regard, a letter was also written by the PCCF to the CCF of Ranthambore and the National Tiger Conservation Authority. But until now permission in this regard could not be obtained from NTCA.

Now after the death of tigress MT-4 in Kota's Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve, the tiger will be shifted to Udaipur's Sajjangarh Biological Park instead of Kota. According to information from the Forest Department, after getting permission to shift Tiger T-104, the preparations for shifting have also been started by the Forest Department.

Ranthambore Tiger Reserve has become a maze for tigresses and their cubs. Once lost, a tiger, tigress or cub cannot be traced. This has raised questions on the claims of forest department monitoring and tracking. Tigress 138, tiger T-3, cubs of T-79, young tiger T-131 have disappeared in Ranthambore. And the latest is tigress T-54 which has gone missing. This tigress has been missing since the last six months.The higher officials of the forest dept are clueless about the disappearance of tigers and cubs.