Nagpur to become Tiger Capital
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The Maharashtra State Government is pushing forward with plans to name Nagpur the ‘Tiger Capital’ of the state in a bid to attract the attention of traveller and promote the state on the Indian tourist track. “We have decided to make Nagpur the gateway to the tiger land as Maharashtra and Gujarat have the highest tiger population [in the country]. States like Gujarat and Kerala are already promoting their assets… in order to stay in competition we will now promote what we have in abundance,” Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said at a press conference. Nagpur is quite entitled to its new title if recent census results are anything to go by. The city registered a total of 148 tigers out of 169 in the whole state, a state-wide figure which is up from 103 four years ago. “Nagpur is the major store house of tigers as the city alone has three tiger reserves and more than five sanctuaries. In all Maharashtra has four reserves and 34 sanctuaries,” A K Khetrapal, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) told PTI.
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