The Central Zoo Authority (CZA) today asked the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) to re-locate half of the deer from the Cuttack Park to elsewhere immediately.
Visiting the deer park near Tulasipur here, the CZA officials today said the Park is bursting at the seams as the four acre park is now housing nearly 170 deer.
It has been a decade since the suggestion came from the apex body of the zoos in the country but the authorities here are still non-committal.
The Deer Park in the city was set up in February 1981 with a purpose of enhancing the aesthetic scenario of the millennium city. The park was set up in only four acres of land at a cost of Rs 40 lakh and 85 deer were received from the Nandankanan zoological park.
The civic body is looking after the animals including their food, medicines and maintenance of boundary walls.
Following the intervention of Orissa High Court, the district administration six years ago had allotted separate land near Naraj on the outskirts of the city for having a second deer park.
"But neither the CMC nor the district administration is making any budgetary provisions for construction of the new park," said a caretaker of the Park.
