Jaipur: The recently notified buffer zone for the Sariska tiger reserve seems to have got a better deal. About 250 sq km was added to the CTH of the reserve. According to sources, “The buffer zone here is a continuous chain of land unlike the fragmented buffer of Ranthambore. However, the buffer area in the north western and southern part of the CTH here is much more than the other parts.” For creating the buffer zone in Sariska, parts of forest land from the Alwar and Jaipur forest division were included. While areas such as Sirawas, Digani and Bhasra were included from the Alwar forest division, the Digota block of the Jamua Ramgarh sanctuary was included from the Jaipur forest division. “About 70 % of the total of 250 sq km that was added as buffer is mainly in the north western and south parts of the Sariska CTH. This lopsided addition to the buffer had to be done so as to keep revenue land away from it. Other places like Tehla, Thanagazi and Rajgarh would have come into the buffer too,” sources said. Though the law does not mention anything about the non-inclusion of revenue land as a buffer but officials revealed that efforts were made so as to include minimum amount of revenue land and instead take in those tracts that are already notified forests. The inclusion of revenue land would have brought in a lot of confrontation with people some of whose houses and farms would then have intruded into the buffers. These people would then had to take permission for doing anything in their own plot of land or house.