Supreme Court to decide on tiger-tourism ban
October 03, 2012  11:46
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The Supreme Court is likely to decide on Wednesday the Centre's request to allow tourism in at least 20 per cent of what is known as core areas of tiger sanctuaries. 

In July, the top court had banned tourism in core areas of all 41 tiger reserves in the country based on an existing policy of the Centre. The ban was imposed after states failed to comply with the Centre's notification that tourism in these core areas be phased out.
  
Under pressure from various state governments, the Centre had approached the apex court for lifting the ban partially. 

In the last court hearing two weeks ago, the Centre had filed an affidavit asking for the ban to be lifted on tourism in core areas of tiger reserves. In the affidavit, the Centre had outlined the revised guidelines to protect the tiger population.

The guidelines presented to the court talked about the phasing out of permanent tourist facilities located inside the core areas of the reserve in a specified time frame.
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