PRAYAGRAJ, Oct. 13 -- Uttar Pradesh's first Chand Khamaria blackbuck conservation area will now be developed as an eco-tourism zone. District magistrate Manish Kumar Verma who recently visited the area in Meja tehsil has directed the departments concerned to prepare a plan in this regard.

Accompanied by DFO Arvind Kumar Yadav, the DM had also carried out discussions with the local people about possibilities for improving better arrangements and facilities to protect the blackbuck and increase their numbers. He had inspected the entire conservation area through binoculars from the watch tower, taking stock of the arrangements, and observed the blackbucks roaming there.

To address the drinking water problem for the blackbucks, the DM dire...