nagpur the registration for machans for nisarga anubhav slated for may 16 and 17 buddha pournima received an overwhelming response on day 1 with parks flooding with requests over email and online bookingsthe nisarga anubhav exercise this year is being held after a gap of two years due to the outbreak of the covid pandemic though ntca doesnt recognize the methodology it is conducted to know the density of animals in an area despite pench charging rs2000 per participant and nagzira charging rs1500 both the parks received a huge responseprabhu nath shukla deputy director core pench said on thursday the first day of bookings we received at least 66 applications we have 30 machans and are virtually through as the candidates are to be considered on a firstcomefirstserved basis there are still inquiries from other parts of the stateshukla added the number of machans has been dropped from 100 to 33 as the exercise will be conducted only in penchs buffer area in paoni and nagalwadi in the core area field staff will be deputed on the high cost of entry fee shukla said we are giving a tshirt snacks food drinking water and a souvenir to each volunteer besides expenses towards logisticsin nntr deputy director core pawan jeph said at least 70 applications were received on day 1 there are 90 machans in nagzira koka and new nagzira sanctuaries where the exercise will be undertaken in navegaon national park and navegaon sanctuary field staff will conduct the exercise we are charging rs1500 per person which includes food water and logisticsmelghat tiger reserve mtr which covers the entire amravati revenue division and includes six divisions of the tiger reserve and sanctuaries like katepurna painganga tipeshwar and dnyanganga has a maximum number of over 460 machans of these 60 machans have been reserved for media and ngosthe bookings started at 4pm on thursday but we were unable to log in when i somehow logged in the website showed many machans were already booked said girish akhare akoladivisional forest officer dfo manoj kumar khairnar said as many people were trying to register at the same time the website crashed the website is under repair and bookings will start soon in tadoba buffer deputy director buffer g guruprasad said it is business as usual as nisarga anubhav is a part of the routine tourism activity in the morning 12 machans were booked for this activity rs4500 is charged including pick up and drop and guide charges there are 33 machans in the buffer zone