The National Tiger Conservation Authority has since then, been fulfilling its mandate within the ambit of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 for strengthening tiger conservation in the country by retaining an oversight through advisories/normative guidelines, based on appraisal of tiger status, ongoing conservation initiatives and recommendations of specially constituted Committees.

The NTCA has streamlined tiger conservation in the country by assisting the States technically as well as financially in the following areas as follows;

Technical Support

NTCA has formulated advisories/ guidelines on the following subjects for implementation by the tiger reserves.

-Normative guidelines
-Tiger Estimation
-Standard Operating Procedures
-Species recovery
-Securing connecting landscapes
-Management Effectiveness Evaluation
-Economic Evaluation
-Issue guidelines on tiger safari

For more information on various guidelines, SOPs, tiger estimation, MEE and Economic evaluation please visit the ‘Documents‘ section of the website.

Financial Support

Through Annual Plan of Operations (APO), NTCA has been providing financial assistance to tiger reserves for the following areas of activities.

-Voluntary Village Relocation
-Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF)
-Anti-poaching
-Habitat Management
-M-STrIPES (Monitoring system for tigers, intensive patrolling and ecological status)
-Awareness and outreach
-Man-animal conflict
-Eco development
-Human Resource Development (HRD)
-Monitoring through Phase IV protocol
-Technological interventions like UAVs and e-Eye

For further details on financial support to tiger reserves, please visit the ‘APO Sanctions‘ page.