A 45-year-old widow whose husband was mauled to death by a lion at Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) back in 2010, is struggling to make ends meet. Eight years after the incident, in 2018, she was given '1.5 lakh compensation, even though she was promised '10 lakh. The woman, assisted by a non-profit firm approached Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal (MAT) court earlier this year. The MAT court issued a directive asking the SGNP officials to offer Gimbhal a job as compensation. She has no permanent job yet.

When promises are made, they need to be kept. If she was promised '10 lakh then, there needs to be an investigation of why she has been given only '1.5 lakh. If there has been a court order saying she must be given a job, then one fails to understand why she has not been given a job and this is contempt.