After Peaceful Ways Fail To Yield Results, Villagers Threaten To Intensify Protest Alwar: The ongoing agitation of villagers has spelled doom for the tourism industry at Sariska tiger reserve with mass protest against relocation entering the 13th day on Tuesday. Nearly 2,500 villagers who stay around the park have been blocking its main entrance since February 28. They threatened to intensify the stir on Monday as their peaceful agitation has failed to create any impact on the administration officials. Nearly 50 villages are yet to be relocated from the reserve area. The administration has put a ban on registry of land in these villages and other surrounding areas. About 2,500 residents of these 50 villages have been organising an indefinite sit-in at the reserve against the alleged “cheating” by the district administration. The villagers allege that they had called off the agitation in May last year when the district administration agreed on some of their demands including lifting ban on the registry of land, construction of a concrete road and earmarking a grazing area. “But now they have backtracked and are expressing ignorance on any consensus being reached,” Jaikishan Gujjar, a villager, said. The tourists had started flocking the park after the number of tigers in Sariska reached seven with relocation of two tigers from Ranthambore in January. “More tourists were coming to Sariska as tiger sighting had become comparatively easier after relocation of two more tigers. However, with villagers blocking the park’s entrance, the tourism industry has taken a beating. Many hotel and other bookings have been cancelled in the past 12 days,” said Kailash Chand, a tour operator. Since 2008, the farmers in the periphery of the reserve have been showing their anger against the state government and wildlife authorities’ decision to relocate them. The villagers leave their cattle to graze in the sanctuary area leading to frequent confrontations with forest guards and officials. It is the third time in the past eight months that the villagers have launched an agitation against relocation.