Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday formally opened the Kaziranga National Park for tourists for the year 2020-21.
The jeep safari would start from Wednesday in the Kohora and Bagori ranges of the national park while the other two ranges would be opened from November for the visitors where elephant safari will also be started.
Addressing the media on the occasion, the Chief Minister said, “From today onwards the national park has been opened for tourists, both domestic and foreign and I hope that Assam’s tourism sector would be revived after the COVID-19 induced lockdown situation with the opening of Kaziranga National Park.”
He also expressed optimism that the unemployed youths in and around Kaziranga would find meaningful employment again through jeep safari and other tourism activities.
Referring to the one-time financial assistance provided to the people engaged in jeep safari by the State government to alleviate their economic stress brought by COVID-19, Sonowal said that the state government would take more such initiatives in the future for providing succour to the people engaged in the tourism sector of the State.
He also called on the people of the five districts covered by Kaziranga National Park and the local communities residing in the surrounding areas of the park to extend full hospitality to the visitors coming from outside so that the best picture of the State can be presented to the outside world.
