The Union Cabinet approved continuation of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats for the 15th Finance Commission cycle for an overall outlay of Rs. 2602.98 crores.
The said scheme includes sub-components.
- The Project Tiger sub component already has an inherent use of technology in day-to-day management practices such as the M-STrIPES (Monitoring System for Tigers, Intensive Protection and Ecological Status) mobile application.
- The Project Tiger component also supports the ambitious Project Cheetah in the country which shall be continued under the umbrella scheme of Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats.
- The Project Dolphin and Project Lion are parts of the Development of Wildlife Habitat component.
- Human-elephant conflict is part of the Project Elephant component which is envisaged to leverage information and communication technology interventions.
- While strengthening the existing fundamental and core components of the scheme, the scheme envisages to boost technological interventions in different thematic areas over the current and next financial year in our tiger and wildlife bearing forests.
- 55 tiger reserve, 33 elephant reserves and 718 protected areas and their zones of influence stand to benefit.
