Businessman Anand Mahindra recently shared a post featuring a “terrific” comparison of pH๏τos showing the elevated highway running through the Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh. His post highlighted the coexistence of wildlife and infrastructure development.

Businessman Anand Mahindra recently shared a post featuring a “terrific” comparison of pH๏τos showing the elevated highway running through the Pench Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh. His post highlighted the coexistence of wildlife and infrastructure development. Anand Mahindra‘s post includes two impressive pH๏τos. The first shows the elevated highway cutting through the greenery of the reserve, while the second captures a tiger walking beneath it, using the pᴀssageway created for wildlife movement.

He captioned the post, “A fantastic comparison of pH๏τos of the elevated highway, part of NH 44, through the Pench Tiger Reserve.”

These images showcase the harmonious integration of modern infrastructure with the natural environment, emphasizing the importance of sustainable development and wildlife protection.

About the Pench National Park Highway

• India’s first-ever soundproof highway is being constructed in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh. This highway will be located on National Highway 7, which pᴀsses through the Pench Tiger Reserve. It’s crucial that this highway is built in a way that doesn’t disturb the animals living in the area.
• The NH 44 Highway extends up to Nagpur. Let’s take a closer look at the features of this special highway, including project details and how it has been made light and soundproof.
• Roads pᴀssing through protected areas like this need to be designed to minimize human-animal conflicts. Such conflicts pose dangers to both wildlife and humans. Constructing a light and soundproof highway would benefit both humans and animals, creating a win-win situation.
• This highway is being constructed in the Seoni-Nagpur sector, pᴀssing through National Highway 44 in the Pench Tiger Reserve.
• As part of the project, 14 underpᴀsses will be built to ensure safe pᴀssage for both humans and animals.

About Pench National Park

Pench National Park, nestled in the heart of India in Madhya Pradesh, spans an impressive 758 square kilometers. Situated in the southern part of Madhya Pradesh, specifically in the Seoni and Chhindwara districts, it shares a boundary with Maharashtra. An additional 257 square kilometers of the park extends into Maharashtra but remains accessible from Madhya Pradesh. This natural treasure boasts abundant flora and fauna, divided into two sections: Priyadarshini National Park and Mowgli Pench Sanctuary covering 299 square kilometers, and a 464 square kilometer buffer area.

Named after the Pench River, which runs from north to south and divides the park into eastern and western halves, this sanctuary is not only a habitat for wildlife but also for humans. There are ten villages in and around the park, with one village, Fulzari, situated within the park boundaries and the other nine on the outskirts.

Initially declared as a sanctuary in 1965, Pench achieved national park status in 1975. Due to its significant tiger population, it was designated as a tiger reserve in 1992 and is now managed under Project Tiger. The park’s beauty and wildlife have been immortalized in Rudyard Kipling’s classic “The Jungle Book.”