Kaziranga elevated road plan awaits nod :
· The Assam government is awaiting clearance from the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways for a 35-km long elevated road project through the Kaziranga National Park.
· To conserve the animals by preventing their deaths during Assam floods.
· The Assam government is planning to develop an elevated road over nine corridors used by the animals of Kaziranga national park and Tiger reserve during high floods.
· It an effort to balance the developmental needs like road infrastructure and bio diversity conservation efforts.
· Kaziranga project will have two tunnels with estimated length of 1.5 km to 1.6 and the other 500 to 600 meters.
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Specialities :
· In the year 1985, the park was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
· It is recognized as an important Bird Area by the by Bird Life International for the conservation of avifaunal species.
· It houses the world’s largest population of Great One-horned Rhinoceros.
· Kaziranga was declared a Tiger Reserve in 2006.
· The alignment was fixed in coordination with the Wildlife Institute of India (WII). We consider it as a Kaziranga project, not a highway project”.