HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, Jan 5: Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit and overnight stay last year, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated on Sunday that the number of visitors to the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve has significantly grown.
Assam’s UNESCO World Heritage Site—Kaziranga National Park saw a record number of visitors, the most in the past 20 years, according to the chief minister. In the recent three months, 1.6 lakh tourists visited Kaziranga, he said.
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Taking to X, Sarma wrote, “Brand Bharat has its biggest Ambassador in the form of Adarniya Shri @narendramodi ji. After Hon’ble Prime Minister’s overnight stay & appeal to the people to visit @kaziranga, the Park has witnessed record footfall of 1.6 lakh tourists in the last 3 months, highest in 20 yrs.”
Modi is the nation’s first prime minister to stay overnight in Kaziranga National Park. He went there in March of last year, right before the Lok Sabha elections started.
The Prime Minister took an elephant and jeep safari in the park with forest officials and other senior government officers. He also interacted with forest staff and gave them a series of suggestions to increase the tourist footfall.
Meanwhile, the Assam government signed a MoU with the Tata group on Saturday to establish a luxury hotel in Kaziranga. Sarma claimed that the initiative was taken to increase the tourist inflow in the UNESCO world heritage site.
”Taking forward Hon’ble PM’s thrust in developing tourism in the region and to further attract tourists and visitors to the State, we signed an MoU today for the establishment of a 5 star property in Kaziranga. This property will provide world-class experience to the visitors and encourage them to spend more time in Assam,” the chief minister had said.
