Mysuru: Even as 15 Dasara elephants are being prepped up for the grand finale with sumptuous butter-and-fruit-laced food, body massages and rigorous training at the sprawling Mysore Palace and outside, a set of five female elephants, also inside the Palace, are not that fortunate to be the cynosure of all eyes.
Reason: An administrative approval from the Forest Department to shift at least three of them back to forests is caught in files, red tape and lack of attention by the official machinery. Also, the Department that had agreed to shift three elephants earlier wants its maintenance to be taken care of.
