What is in news : National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) approved the Chhattisgarh government’s proposal to declare the combined areas of the Guru Ghasidas National Park and Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary as a Tiger Reserve.

Location : Chhattisgarh

Other tiger reserves in the area : Udanti-Sitanadi, Achanakmar, and Indravati Reserves.

Significance : Turning Guru Ghasidas into a Tiger Reserve is important because it connects Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh and provides a corridor for tigers to move between the Bandhavgarh and Palamau Tiger Reserves.

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National Tiger Conservation Authority

• Statutory body
• Under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.
• Established in 2005 following the recommendations of the Tiger Task Force.
• Constituted under enabling provisions of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, as amended in 2006, for strengthening tiger conservation, as per powers and functions assigned to it.