Mysuru: Three contract employees of the Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens or Mysuru Zoo including a lady employee have been dismissed from service for irregularities in the ticket collection and checking counters where tourists are allowed inside after accepting the same tickets (mostly sold online) that are sold earlier to different tourists. The scam has caused considerable revenue loss to the Zoo. Added to this, the automated barcode scanning machine at the entrance to scan the online tickets is ‘under repair’ since six years and no effort has been made to repair it.
Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Member-Secretary, Zoo Authority of Karnataka (ZAK) B.P. Ravi has now ordered a probe into the ticket scam in the Zoo and Shivamogga Zoo Executive Director Chandrashekhar will investigate and submit a report to the ZAK.
