Monkey menace is not new to the residents of Nalgonda town. But the new entry is that of langurs whose number has multiplied in the recent past. Two groups of langurs were spotted moving around the town in the past one month.
Sources in the civic body, which has been receiving numerous complaints with regard to monkeys, said that as they came to know of their presence in the town, they roped in monkey catchers. These workers will catch monkeys and safely leave them in a forest area. However, the civic authorities confirmed that they have not received any complaints regarding langurs so far.
Speaking to The Hindu , K. Sudhakar, a resident, said that some people had brought two langurs a few years ago to the town to keep simians away from their locality. “But their number multiplied somehow and now it has turned into a menace,” he added.
Langurs enter houses and terrify children and women. Even monkeys keep away from the colonies where langurs roam around.
Divisional Forest Officer S. Satyanarayana said that they can address the problem by planting fruit-bearing saplings on all the hills located around Nalgonda and other parts of the district.
“We are lucky that there are massive hills near Nalgonda where we can grow fruit-bearing plants. When there is abundant food available in the forest area, the monkeys would not enter human habitations,” he said. As part of the Haritha Haram programme, he said that the department has planted fruit-bearing saplings on the hills across the district.
