The Odisha government on Thursday announced a Rs 20-crore plan to save elephants from electrocution and poachers. The elephant conservation project would be launched in three districts in the first phase, official sources said. Presiding over a high-level meeting at Naveen Nivas, chief minister Naveen Patnaik, bed-ridden for his ankle injury, expressed grave concern over the growing number of deaths due to electrocution and poaching of jumbos, and asked officials of the energy and forest departments to jointly prepare a comprehensive plan so as to avoid electrocution of elephants.