new delhi jun 9 union minister maneka gandhi today slammed the environment ministry for allowing culling of wild animals saying she cannot understand this lust for killing but environment minister prakash javadekar defended the action insisting it is done on request of states to protect crops the outburst from maneka who holds the women and child development portfolio and is an animal rights activist came after the recent killing of nilgai blue bulls in bihar which she termed as biggest ever massacre even as the row led to criticism from opposition which alleged that there is no cohesion in the government maneka said the union environment ministry is writing to every state government allowing them to provide a list of animals that can be killed so that the centre can give permission this is happening for the first time i dont understand this lust for killing of animals however javadekar insisted that it was scientific management of animal population and the permissions for killing animals designated as vermin were restricted to particular areas and time period maneka claimed the centre has allowed killing of nilgai in bihar elephants in west bengal monkeys in himachal pradesh peacocks in goa and wild boars in chandrapur even when the wildlife departments of states are saying they do not wish to kill animals on the nilgai killing in bihar she said it has happened when neither the village head nor the farmers have called for their killing responding to the charge javadekar said it is being done as per existing law and is not a central government programme as per existing law when farmers face a lot of problems and their crops are completely damaged and when state government sends a proposal only then we allow culling and grant approval to the state governments proposal for a particular area and time period for scientific management it is not a programme of the central government the law is such he said maneka said 53 wild boars have been killed in droughthit chandrapur in maharashtra and the environment ministry has allowed killing of 50 more even when the state wildlife department does not want that the opposition parties alleged that there is no teamwork or cohesion in the government the ministries do not have cohesion among them this is not the first time such a thing is happening all ministries are clashing and that is why work is stalled there is lack of teamwork jdu spokesman ajay alok said ncp spokesperson rahul narvekar said there is no synchronisation between various ministries of the government thanks to one single person dictating terms this is another example of bad governance skc rt