National Tiger Conservation Authority / Project Tiger

National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)


The National Tiger Conservation Authority is a statutory body under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change constituted under enabling provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, as amended in 2006, for strengthening tiger conservation.

'Project Tiger' is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the Environment, Forests and Climate Change, giving subsidizing backing to tiger range States, for in-situ preservation of tigers in assigned tiger reserves, and has put the jeopardized tiger on a guaranteed way of recuperation by sparing it from annihilation, as uncovered by the ongoing discoveries of the All India tiger estimation utilizing the refined strategy.

The Indian Government launched an android app named M-STrIPES (Monitoring system for Tigers – Intensive Protection and Ecological Status), a software-based monitoring system at different tiger reserves across the country on 14 April 2010.

Every 4 year the National Tiger Conservation Authority conducts a tiger census across India to figure out the Royal Bengal Tiger population in India.


Tiger Census 2006
Tiger Census 2010
Tiger Census 2014
Tiger Census 2018
Shivalik Gangetic Plain

Uttarakhand
178
227
340
442
Uttar Pradesh
109
118
117
173
Bihar
10
8
28
31
Central Indian Landscape and Eastern Ghats
AP & Telangana
95
72
68
48+26
Chhattisgarh
26
26
46
19
Madhya Pradesh
300
257
308
526
Maharashtra
103
169
190
312
Odisha
45
32
28
28
Rajasthan
32
36
45
69
Jharkhand
-
10
3
5
Western Ghats
Karnataka
290
300
406
524
Kerala
46
71
136
190
Tamil Nadu
76
163
229
264
Goa
-
-
5
3
The Northeast

Assam
70
143
167
190
Arunachal Pradesh
14
-
28
29
Mizoram
6
5
3
0
West Bengal
10
-
3
0
Sunderbans
-
70
76
88
TOTAL
1411
1706
2226
2967

Tiger Population facts from the latest census report

  1. Total Population of Royal Bengal Tiger in India is 2,967
  2. There are 4 States (M.P., Karnataka, Uttrakhand & Maharashtra) with more than 300 Tigers
  3. There are 4 States (Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala, U.P.) with more than 150 Tigers.
  4. Total 8 States with more than 100% Increase in Tiger Population as compared to 2006.
  5. Madhya Pradesh has become the Tiger State of India.
  6. Buxa, Dampa and Palamau Tiger Reserves do not have a single Tigers now.
  7. No Tigers were found in Mizoram state.
  8. Pench National Park in Madhya Pradesh and Periyar National Park in Kerala are the top-rated Tiger Reserves in India.

Tiger Census 2014

  • India is the home to almost 70% of the world’s tiger population.
  • A total of 2226 tigers were estimated as per 2014 tiger census report
  • Karnataka becomes the state with the most number of tigers in India. Total tiger count in Karnataka was 408. 

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