(IN) Improved Fund flow for Tiger Conservation

July 4, 2009

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Improved fund flow channel for tiger conservation

2 Jul 2009, 2203 hrs IST, IANS

NEW DELHI: The cabinet on Thursday approved an improved fund flow channel from

the union government to the states and further down to the tiger reserves to

ensure effective tiger conservation.

The decision, approving the implementation of " the new and improved tripartite

Memorandum of Understanding format linked to fund flows between the union

ministry of environment and forests, state governments and the tiger reserve

management " was taken in a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan

Singh, said cabinet spokesperson Ambika Soni.

She said the fund flow channel was devised following concerns expressed by the

prime minister on the issue of tiger conservation.

The tripartite MOU would ensure effective tiger conservation by laying out the

respective responsibilities and reciprocal commitments linked to fund flows to

foster public accountability, said Soni.

She added that the MoU would strengthen tiger conservation initiatives in the

country, besides reinforcing the ongoing ones aimed conserving tiger population

and rid them of the threat of poaching and demand for its body parts in the

international illegal market.

She said the new fund flow channel would develop approaches to strengthen the

ongoing efforts for conserving tigers in the designated tiger reserves and other

tiger bearing forests of the country and would also address the growing concern

among public for saving the tiger.

She said the new fund flow management would be done through centrally-sponsored

scheme of Project Tiger in the 37 Tiger reserves in the country. It would cover

17 states - Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarkhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya

Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Chattisgarh, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh,

Mizoram, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka.

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