“Leave them alone and they will leave you alone,” stated an advisory issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat on Monday to deal with monkey menace in its complex.
In its circular, the Parliament Security Service of the Lok Sabha Secretariat has suggested that people should not stop in case a monkey collides with their vehicle. “In case a monkey collides with your vehicle [two-wheelers especially], do not stop there,” read the circular.
It also suggested avoiding crossing the “path between a mother and her infant”, making “direct eye contact with monkeys”, running from the animal, and hitting or feeding them.
“Do not ever hit any monkey. Keep hitting the ground with a big stick to make [the] monkey leave your house or garden.”
Yet another suggestion is to ignore the animal and make a loud noise to force the monkey to leave the premises. The Parliament House complex, along with other nearby buildings including the North and South Blocks and the Rashtrapati Bhavan around the Central Ridge forest, suffer from monkey menace.
