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    The Union Cabinet approved the design and development of the GSAT-10 communication satellite at a cost of Rs. 735 crores to replace aging satellites and provide additional capacity for applications like DTH. GSAT-10 will have Ku-band and C-band transponders as well as a navigation payload. It is scheduled to be realized within 20 months and will weigh approximately 3,337 kg at launch. According to a recent tiger census, India's tiger population is estimated to be around 1,411, with viable populations in tiger reserves but ongoing conservation efforts still needed. Poaching remains a major threat outside of protected areas where tiger numbers are generally poorer.

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    The Union Cabinet approved the design and development of the GSAT-10 communication satellite at a cost of Rs. 735 crores to replace aging satellites and provide additional capacity for applications like DTH. GSAT-10 will have Ku-band and C-band transponders as well as a navigation payload. It is scheduled to be realized within 20 months and will weigh approximately 3,337 kg at launch. According to a recent tiger census, India's tiger population is estimated to be around 1,411, with viable populations in tiger reserves but ongoing conservation efforts still needed. Poaching remains a major threat outside of protected areas where tiger numbers are generally poorer.

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    The Union Cabinet approved the design and development of the GSAT-10 communication satellite at a cost of Rs. 735 crores to replace aging satellites and provide additional capacity for applications like DTH. GSAT-10 will have Ku-band and C-band transponders as well as a navigation payload. It is scheduled to be realized within 20 months and will weigh approximately 3,337 kg at launch. According to a recent tiger census, India's tiger population is estimated to be around 1,411, with viable populations in tiger reserves but ongoing conservation efforts still needed. Poaching remains a major threat outside of protected areas where tiger numbers are generally poorer.

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    Current Affairs: Approval for GSAT-10 Communication Current Affairs: Number of Tigers in Wildlife

    Satellite Parks/Reserves
    The Union Cabinet today approved undertaking Poaching is one of the major threats to tiger
    design and development of GSAT-10 spacecraft at a cost of population. As per the findings of the recent All India tiger
    Rs.735.00 crores with a Foreign Exchange component of estimation in 2008 using the refined methodology, the total
    Rs.634.00 crores. country-level population of tiger is 1411 (mid value); the
    GSAT-10 satellite with 12 high power Ku-band lower and upper limits being 1165 and 1657 respectively, as
    transponders, 12 C-band and 12 Extended C band India indicated in Annexure-I. The new findings are based on
    coverage transponders and a navigation payload, will spatial occupancy of tigers and sampling such forests using
    replace the ageing INSAT-2E and INSAT-3B satellites, camera traps in a statistical framework, which is not
    create additional capacity for DTH like applications and comparable to the earlier total count using pugmarks. The
    provide on-orbit back-up for the GAGAN navigation said findings indicate a poor status of tiger population in
    payload. areas outside tiger reserves and protected areas. The tiger
    The spacecraft structure is designed for a lift off population, by and large, in tiger reserves and protected
    mass of about 3337 kg with a dry mass of approximately areas of the 17 tiger States are viable, while requiring
    1432 kg. The Spacecraft employs a proven 1-3K structure ongoing conservation efforts.
    used to realize INSAT-4A and 4B satellites. The spacecraft Minister of State for the Ministry of Environment
    is configured with 2-sided solar array panels to generate and Forests (Independent charge) Shri Jairam Ramesh
    around 6 KW of DC power. GSAT-10 spacecraft is planned replied in a written question by Shri Jai Prakash Narayan
    to be realized within 20 months. Singh in Rajya Sabha today.

    Annexure-I :- Forest occupancy and population estimates of tiger as per the refined methodology
    State Tiger km2 Tiger Numbers
    No. Lower limit Upper limit
    Shivalik-Gangetic Plain Landscape Complex
    Uttarakhand 1901 178 161 195
    Uttar Pradesh 2766 109 91 127
    Bihar 510 10 7 13
    Shivalik-Gangetic 5177 297 259 335
    Central Indian Landscape Complex and Eastern Ghats
    Landscape Complex
    Andhra Pradesh 14126 95 84 107
    Chattisgarh 3609 26 23 28
    Madhya Pradesh 15614 300 236 364
    Maharashtra 4273 103 76 131
    Orissa 9144 45 37 53
    Rajasthan 356 32 30 35
    Jharkhand** 1488 Not Assessed
    Central Indian 48610 601 486 718
    Western Ghats Landscape Complex
    Karnataka 18715 290 241 339
    Kerala 6168 46 39 53
    Tamil Nadu 9211 76 56 95
    Western Ghats 34094 412 336 487
    North East Hills and Brahmaputra Flood Plains
    Assam* 1164 70 60 80
    Arunachal Pradesh* 1685 14 12 18
    Mizoram* 785 6 4 8
    Northern West Bengal* 596 10 8 12
    North East Hills, and Brahmaputra 4230 100 84 118
    Sunderbans 1586 Not Assessed
    Total Tiger Population 1411 1165 1657
    * Population estimates are based on possible density of tiger occupied landscape in the area, not assessed by double sampling.
    ** Data was not amenable to population estimation of tiger. However, available information about the landscape indicates low
    densities of tiger in the area ranging from 0.5 to 1.5 per 100 km2.

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