Research On The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)

Yash Garg, Symbiosis Law School, Nagpur

Introduction

The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) is a statutory body under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change that was established under the enabling provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, as amended in 2006, for the purpose of strengthening tiger conservation, as defined by the said Act's powers and functions.

The NTCA has been carrying out its role under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, by maintaining oversight through advisories/normative guidelines based on tiger status assessments, current conservation programmes, and recommendations from specially created Committees.

The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change's 'Project Tiger' is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) that provides funding support to tiger range States for in-situ conservation of tigers in designated tiger reserves, and has saved the endangered tiger from disappearance, as revealed by the recent findings of the All India Tiger Estimation using the refined methodology.