Kaziranga National Bamboo Park and Museum

• In order to conserve bamboo, farmers’ organization Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS), which is currently running Kaziranga National Orchid and Biodiversity Park, has come up with a new park named as Kaziranga National Bamboo Park.The bamboo park will have 54 species available across the Northeast. Besides, a number of cane species will also be there in the park.
• A number of bamboo species available in Assam, including Bhaluka, Jaati, Katahaa, Bijulee, Kalasi, Kako, Lathi bamboo, etc. have been preserved in the bamboo park.
• Apart from Assam, bamboo species from other States of the Northeast including Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland have been planted in the park to preserve bamboo species.
• The bamboos in the park were planted three years back and these have grown up now. So, these can now be presented before the tourists who visit the orchid park.
  the Kaziranga National Bamboo Park is located in the campus of the Kaziranga National Orchid and Biodiversity Park.
• The bamboo park has covered an area of two-and-half-bigha of land.

Museum:

• A museum set up to preserve items of all communities and tribes of Assam. The museum has been named as ‘Assam National Museum’.
• A large collection of different dresses, fishing equipment, war weapons and other items used in day to day life of different communities and tribes of Assam would be preserved in the museum.
• Tourists from around 100 different countries have visited the orchid and biodiversity park so far. Besides 84 permanent employees there are 100 contractual employees who have been working in the park.

By: Ziyaur Rahman