Jaipur, March 23 -- Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh are yet to reach a consensus on the proposed Kuno-Gandhi Sagar inter-state wildlife corridor despite a rising number of African cheetahs from Kuno National Park straying into Rajasthan, officials said. A senior forest official familiar with the development said, "A draft proposal for the 17,000 sq km Kuno-Gandhi Sagar inter-state wildlife corridor, spanning seven districts of Rajasthan and eight of Madhya Pradesh, was prepared last year, when the Rajasthan government also allocated a budget for it. We have sent a copy of the draft to the Madhya Pradesh government for approval and issued repeated reminders. We also sent them a letter last month; the response is still awaited." According to officials, the Cheetah Project Steering Committee and the two state governments discussed the corridor for cheetahs to roam freely to develop their territories in November 2024. Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav and his Rajasthan counterpart, Bhajan Lal Sharma, also deliberated over the issue. The cheetah corridor project was part of Rajasthan's budget proposals in FY 2025-26. Rajasthan also requested the World Wildlife Institute for the survey of the corridor. However, in September last year, Madhya Pradesh suspended the project. Meanwhile, on March 8, the NTCA, in a statement also said that they reconsidering the project once again after two Kuno-based cheetahs arrived in Rajasthan six times in the last two years, of which most incidents happened in last one year. The cheetah, KP-3, who arrived in Baran's Baanjh Aaamli range on March 2 travelling around 60-70 km from Kuno by crossing the Parvati river was sighted again in Ramgarh crater area on Sunday after returning to Kuno a week ago. The deputy conservator of forest in Baran, Bade Vivekanand Manikrao, said, "KP-3 was spotted by our staff on Saturday morning. Its sibling KP-2 also arrived in Ramgarh's Mangrol range on February 14 and recently moved to Kota two days ago." "Both cheetahs are under 24x7 GPS and radio-collar monitoring by a joint inter-state team, with field teams deployed from the Kota, Kishanganj and Anta ranges," he said. Earlier, KP-2 also entered the area on November 27 and returned to Kuno a month later. However, it came back again on February 14. Forest officials said that it is the sixth time in the last two years when a cheetah from Kuno National Park entered Rajasthan. In December, 2023, another cheetah, Agni, was sighted venturing into the Ramgarh crater area following which authorities tranquilised it and brought it back to Kuno a day after. Three months later, another cheetah in March, 2024 was also sighted roaming around the Ramgarh area which returned to Kuno three days later, said the officials. Manikrao said that the vast grass-lands in Rajasthan's forests seem to be very suitable for these cheetahs....