RAS question
Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve was notified in which year?
Correct answer: (C) 1993.
Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh was notified under Project Tiger in 1993.
Explanation
Bandhavgarh is a tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh. Its Project Tiger notification year is 1993, and the National Tiger Conservation Authority Tiger Reserves page lists Bandhavgarh with a PA Notification Year of 1993-94. The year 1993 is the closest calendar-year rendering of that official PA notification period. The same NTCA table separates this from the later TR Notification Year column, where Bandhavgarh appears with a Gazette-linked 2007 entry. The original Project Tiger-era notification remains distinct from the later Gazette-notification column.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) 1990 predates Bandhavgarh's 1993 Project Tiger notification and falls before the NTCA-listed 1993-94 PA notification period.
- (B) 2000 is not tied to Bandhavgarh's Project Tiger notification, and Bandhavgarh's NTCA PA Notification Year is 1993-94.
- (D) 1998 is later than Bandhavgarh's 1993 Project Tiger notification and does not align with the NTCA-listed 1993-94 PA notification period.
Concept
Protected-area chronology under Environment and Ecology includes Project Tiger and the official identification of tiger reserves. Such dates recur in RAS because conservation institutions are often covered through direct factual MCQs.