Lok Sabha Question No. 356 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-02-02
Subject: Tiger Attacks in Shirdi Lok Sabha Constituency
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Shri Bhausaheb Rajaram Wakchaure

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 356 TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.02.2026

## Tiger Attacks in Shirdi Lok Sabha Constituency

## 356.      SHRI BHAUSAHEB RAJARAM WAKCHAURE:

Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether continuously increased incidents of tiger attacks in the Shirdi Lok Sabha Constituency of Maharashtra  are creating an atmosphere of fear and anxiety among the local people;
- (b) if so, the details of people died due to tiger attack;
- (c) whether the farmers in the said area especially in Sangamner, Rahata, Shrirampur and Akola talukas are unable to carry out their farming activities even during the day time due to threat of tiger attack;
- (d) whether the  Government has taken or proposes to take any steps to address the problem of tiger  attacks  in  the  said  Constituency  and  to  provide  relief  to  the  local  people  from  tiger attacks by capturing the tigers and relocating them to the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur  district  of  the  State  or  to  any  other  Central  Tiger  Reserve  in  the  larger  public interest; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI KIRTI VARDHAN SINGH)

(a)  , (b) & (c) The  State  Governments  have  the  primary  responsibility  to  manage  human-wildlife conflicts  situation  under  the  relevant  provisions  made  under  Section  11  &  12  of  the  Wild  Life (Protection) Act, 1972, which empower the State Chief Wildlife Wardens to manage human wildlife conflict  situations.    To  address  the  wildlife  conflict  situation,  the  Ministry  has  issued  Standard Operating Procedure's (SOP's) for handling and managing the human-wildlife conflicts.  The Central Government  provides  financial  assistance  to  States  under  the  Project  Tiger  Component  of  the ongoing Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats (CSS-IDWH) for  conservation  of  tigers,  raising  awareness  on  tiger  &  other  wildlife  conservation  including mitigation of human-wildlife conflicts.

Further, as reported by the States, the details of human deaths due to tiger attacks since 2020 to June 2025, including the State of Maharashtra, is at Annexure-I.

- (d) & (e) Apropos, the Government of India, through the National Tiger Conservation Authority, has issued the following three-pronged strategy to deal with conflict which is as below:
- (i) Material and logistical support: Funding support through the ongoing Centrally Sponsored Scheme  of  Project  Tiger,  is  provided  to  tiger  reserves  for  acquiring  capacity  in  terms  of infrastructure  and  material,  to  deal  with  tigers  dispersing  out  of  source  areas.   These  are solicited  by  tiger  reserves  through  an  Annual  Plan  of  Operation  (APO)  every  year  which stems out from an overarching Tiger Conservation Plan (TCP), mandated under Section 38 V

of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. Inter alia, activities such as payment of ex-gratia and compensation,  periodic  awareness  campaigns  to  sensitize,  guide  and  advise  the  general populace  on  man-animal  conflict,  dissemination  of  information  through  various  forms  of media,  procurement  of  immobilization  equipment,  drugs,  training  and  capacity  building  of forest staff to deal with conflict events are generally solicited.

- (ii) Restricting habitat interventions : Based on the carrying capacity of tigers in a tiger reserve, habitat interventions are restricted through an overarching TCP.  In case tiger numbers are at carrying capacity levels, it is advised that habitat interventions should be limited so that there is  no  excessive  spill  over  of  wildlife  including  tigers  thereby  minimizing  man-animal conflict.   Further,  in  buffer  areas  around  tiger  reserves,  habitat  interventions  are  restricted such that they are sub-optimal vis-à-vis the core/critical tiger habitat areas, judicious enough to facilitate dispersal to other rich habitat areas only.
- (iii) Standard  Operating  Procedure  (SOPs): The  National  Tiger  Conservation  Authority  has issued following three SOPs to deal with human-animal conflict, which are available in public domain:
- i.  To deal with emergency arising due to straying of tigers in human dominated landscapes
- ii. To deal with tiger depredation on livestock
- iii. For active management towards rehabilitatsion of tigers from source areas at the landscape level.

The three SOPs inter alia include the issue of managing dispersing tigers, managing livestock kills  so  as  to  reduce  conflict  as  well  as  relocating  tigers  from  source  areas  to  areas  where density of tiger is low, so that conflict in rich source areas does not occur.

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ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a), (b) & (c) OF THE OF THE LOK SABHA  UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  356  ON  TIGER  ATTACKS  IN  SHIRDI  LOK SABHA CONSTITUENCY DUE FOR REPLY ON 02.02.2026

As reported by the States, the details of human deaths due to tiger attacks since 2020 to June 2025 (as on 30.06.2025)

| S. No.   | State             |   2020 |   2021 |   2022 |   2023 |   2024 |   2025 (as on 30.06.2025) |
|----------|-------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|---------------------------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh    |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |                         0 |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |                         0 |
| 3        | Assam             |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      4 |                         0 |
| 4        | Bihar             |      1 |      4 |      9 |      1 |      2 |                         0 |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh      |      0 |      0 |      0 |      3 |      0 |                         0 |
| 6        | Jharkhand         |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |                         0 |
| 7        | Karnataka         |      0 |      1 |      1 |      8 |      2 |                         0 |
| 8        | Kerala            |      2 |      1 |      1 |      1 |      1 |                         0 |
| 9        | Madhya Pradesh    |     11 |      2 |      3 |     10 |      6 |                         9 |
| 10       | Maharashtra       |     39 |     54 |     80 |     37 |     41 |                        27 |
| 11       | Mizoram           |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |                         0 |
| 12       | Orissa            |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |                         0 |
| 13       | Rajasthan         |      0 |      1 |      0 |      2 |      1 |                         0 |
| 14       | Tamil Nadu        |      1 |      3 |      0 |      1 |      0 |                         0 |
| 15       | Telangana         |      2 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      1 |                         0 |
| 16       | Uttar Pradesh     |      4 |     11 |     11 |     25 |     10 |                         2 |
| 17       | Uttarakhand       |      0 |      1 |      3 |      0 |      5 |                         2 |
| 18       | West Bengal       |      5 |      5 |      1 |      0 |      1 |                         0 |
| TOTAL    | TOTAL             |     65 |     83 |    109 |     88 |     74 |                        40 |

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