Article Title: Project Re-Hab
29-11-2022
Environment & Ecology Prelims Plus
Why is in news? KVIC Chairman inaugurates the ambitious Re-Hab Project in Nainital
KVIC Chairman inaugurated the ambitious Re-Hab Project (Reducing Human Attacks using Honey Bees) by Khadi and Village Industries Commission (Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) at village Chausla, in Forest Range Fatehpur, Haldwani, District Nainital.
RE-HAB (Reducing Elephant-Human Attacks using Bees) has been launched, which entails installing bee boxes along the periphery of the forest and the villages to mitigate human-elephant conflict.
The project Re-Hab is running in 7 states of the country, namely in Karnataka, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Assam and Orissa, where attacks of the elephants is more common.
Under this project fencing of bee boxes is installed in such areas from where elephants move towards the human settlements and farmers' agriculture.
Fencing of Bee-boxes on the routes of movement of elephants blocks the path of wild elephants. In this way, through honey-bees, elephants can be prevented from attacking humans and destroying farmers' crops.
It also helped “Sweet Revolution” and to provide self-employment opportunities to the unemployed youth of the country, and to increase the income of the farmers.
The 'Sweet Revolution' was launched in 2016 to promote beekeeping and associated activities.
The Honey Mission program, 2017 is implemented under the Khadi and Gramodyog Vikas Yojana, in the entire country from the year 2018-19.
The beneficiaries of this scheme are provided with 10 bee-boxes, bee-colonies and toolkits after completion of the beekeeping training provided by KVIC.
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