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New Delhi: Delhi is likely to get its first wild animal rescue centre by the end of the year, forest department officials said on Wednesday.
The facility will come up on a 1.24-acre plot in Rajokri where a monkey rescue centre is lying abandoned.
Three five-member rapid response teams will be constituted to rescue stranded animals and rehabilitate them at the Rajokri facility, according to an official.
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New Delhi: Delhi is likely to get its first wild animal rescue centre by the end of the year, forest department officials said on Wednesday.
The facility will come up on a 1.24-acre plot in Rajokri where a monkey rescue centre is lying abandoned.
Three five-member rapid response teams will be constituted to rescue stranded animals and rehabilitate them at the Rajokri facility, according to an official.
The Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority has sanctioned funds for the wild animal rescue centre.
The teams will be constituted in a month, while the facility will be ready by year-end, the official said.
The animal rescue centre will come up in place of a proposed facility for birds.
"There was a proposal for a wild bird rescue centre pending before the Supreme Court-constituted Central Empowered Committee.