Hyderabad | Dec 26, 2016: A team of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) will visit Nalgonda and Nagarkurnool districts, mainly the Amrabad Tiger Reserve, on Tuesday to take up a feasibility study, a mandatory exercise, before permitting uranium exploration.

The team headed by an IG rank officer will head straight to Amrabad from the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, P K Jha, told Telangana Today. The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has sought permission for uranium exploration survey in over 83 sq km of forest area falling in Amrabad Tiger Reserve.

The Tiger Reserve is spread over Amrabad forests in Nagarkurnool district and Narayanpur in Nalgonda district. The Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD), a constituent unit of the Department of the DAE has identified significant uranium deposits in parts of Nalgonda district.

It had conducted ground surveys as well as airborne and heli-borne surveys as part of the exercise. The exploration in Amrabad Tiger Reserve area, once cleared by the NTCA team, will be taken up by the AMD.

The Uranium Corporation of India, which would be tasked with mining of uranium reserves, is the main supplier of processed material used in nuclear reactors by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India for power generation.

(Source: http://telanganatoday.news/)