Question

Project Tiger in India was launched in
A. 1968
B. 1973
C. 1975
D. 1989

Answer 1

Hint:It was launched by the Government of India when Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister.
The first person to be appointed as the director of the project was Kailash Sankhala.

Complete answer:
Project Tiger was launched in April of 1973. It is a tiger conservation program launched by Indira Gandhi’s government. Kailash Sankhala was appointed as the first director of the Project Tiger in 1973. Since the Royal Bengal Tiger is the national animal of our country, the project aims to preserve the diminishing population of the Bengal Tigers and to work and increase their number.
The working force of the project considers the tiger reserves present throughout the country, as breeding nuclei, from which the excess animals would migrate to neighboring habitats. The government has also set up a Tiger Protection Force which combats poachers and relocation of villagers to reduce human-tiger conflicts.
The main aims of Project Tiger are to:-
1. Reduce the factors that cause depletion of the natural habitats of the tigers or at least mitigate them.
2. Rectify the damages that have already been done and facilitate the recovery of their habitat to the maximum extent that is possible.
3. Ensure a feasible tiger population for aesthetic, ecological, cultural and scientific values.

Hence the correct answer is option C.

Note:The efforts of the Project Tiger program were significantly hampered by poaching and irregularities in Namdapha and Sariska Tiger Reserves.
Government passed a Forest Rights Act in 2006 which gave some rights to the communities dwelling in the forest.
But it was argued that humans and tigers cannot coexist and will increase the chances of poaching of tigers.