According to official information, the department will beautify the entire 42-km circumference hill and the foothills, besides setting up an animal breeding centre in Samli village to create a food-base for panthers of the adjoining sanctuary.

The hill, currently is surrounded by extensive plains and bases and there are some forests on the lower slopes. While the shoulders and the centre crest on the south, west and the north are cliffs without any vegetation, the eastern side has some vegetation and broken masonry walls, indicating the erstwhile defensive lines, built to strengthen against attack. The hill rises in five successive plateaus separated by vertical cliffs, which have been eroded over the time and have narrow gorges. One of the plateaus has the famous Maha Kali temple.

According to forest officials, the department would fill the barren terrains with ornamental and all-season flowery trees like Amaltas, gulmohar and sonmohar, besides other vegetation. The department has also decided to set up a retail depot with an aim to institutionalise sale of dry wood among the 100-odd shopkeepers, who have settled on and around the hill over the years. Officials say earlier these shopkeepers and their family members were stealing wood from the nearby areas and in the process damaging the ecology around. Hence, now the depot would sell the wood to the shopkeepers on no-profit-no-loss basis. Also, road-sides en route the hill top would be beautified with decorative plants and bushes, officials say.

Meanwhile, the department recently released more than 50 black bucks and large birds into the nearby Samli breeding centre. Officials said though none of the animals brought here from Indroda Park, Gandhinagar had bread, there was still hope. Attributing it to new surroundings and other psychological problems, officials said it would take some time for the animals to adjust to the new surroundings. They expressed hope that if the breeding was successful, the centre would generate food-base for panthers, who had been wandering into human areas and attacking humans in the past couple of months.