on july 20, 2006, the Union cabinet finally approved a bill introduced in 2005 to amend the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. The amendment will incorporate the much-awaited recommendations made by the Tiger Task Force set up in 2005 by the prime minister. It asked for statutory and administrative powers for the Project Tiger Directorate and creation of a Wild Life Crime Control Bureau under the wildlife act.

The cabinet also approved amendments to the Right to Information Act, 2005 (see: Partial access).

In December 2005, the amendment bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha and one of the amendments was to give statutory and administrative powers to the directorate.

At a June 2006 meeting, the National Board for Wildlife approved the setting up of the bureau (see