dehradun even though the state forest department has laid out grand plans to expand malsi deer park as a zoo of international levels officials here claim that the park which has given revenues of rs 35 lakh to the state government this year has not been paid any money for the food of animals and birds kept here there are two leopards 80 deers birds of exotic varieties vultures emu etc in this park at present the park authorities expressed fear that they might not be able to make arrangement for food of these animals on their own if the funds crunch continues they have thus prepared a proposal for further approval of the state government to form a society under society act to use most part of the fund for maintenance and their other expenditures of the park in future pk patro divisional forest official of dehradun forest division told toi it is for last six months we have got no fund to provide food for the animals if it continues like this and we exhaust all our endeavors to provide them food the animals can not wait even for a day without food in wake of our grand plans to include a large number of big and small animals and birds of various species in the park this problem will further become aggravated with the existing arrangement he said the authorities give entire revenue to the state government which came around rs 35 lakh this year the government also release around rs 25 lakh for maintenance including food for animals and rs 15 lakh for salaries of staff every year however owing to the slugging procedure of sanctioning and releasing the amount they do not get money in time he said all the big zoos at national and international level have formed their management committee under society act to maintain their expenses once malsi park is upgraded as zoo with large number of animalsbirds then our tourists inflow which is three lakh per year now is expected to increase by five lakh the revenue will also increase to four crore as we will fresh start a number of new activities and facilities out of this amount we will keep 75 as revolving fund for staff salaries and maintenance and 25 will be given to the state government this way the government will not need to spend anything on the zoo said he he said if their proposal get approved then all the decisions will be made by a management committee without any intervention of the state government so the pace of execution will automatically be faster