<p>Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to stay at the Kaziranga National Park and undertake a jungle safari during his two-day visit to <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/assam">Assam</a> from March 8, an official said on Wednesday.</p><p>Modi is scheduled to arrive at Kaziranga in the evening of March 8 and stay the night, before taking a safari inside the park the next morning and then leave for Jorhat to attend a series of programmes.</p><p>Assam Forest and Environment Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary visited the Kaziranga National Park on Tuesday and held a series of meetings with senior officials, including Chief Secretary Paban Borthakur and Director General of Police G P Singh, to finalise arrangements for the prime minister's visit.</p>.<p>The authorities have made arrangements for both jeep and elephant safaris inside the park, the official said.</p><p>Kaziranga was declared a national park in February 1974 and is celebrating the golden jubilee of the event this year.</p><p>On March 9, the prime minister is scheduled to unveil the over 125-ft-high bronze statue of legendary Ahom general Lachit Barphukan at Jorhat.</p>.PM Modi offers prayers at Madurai's Meenakshi Amman Temple.<p>He is also scheduled to lay the foundation stone of Sivasagar Medical College, participate in the 'Griha Pravesh' (house-warming) ceremony for 5.5 lakh homes constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) and address a public meeting at Meleng Meteli Pothar in Jorhat.</p><p>Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had on February 15 visited the statue of Lachit Barphukan, located at Ahom general's 'maidam' (memorial), at Lahdoigarh in Hollongapar area of the district.</p><p>Sarma had said that the area will be developed as a Lachit Barphukan Cultural Centre and two museums -- one on the Ahom era and the other a war museum with artefacts of that period will also be set up in the precincts.</p><p>Barphukan is famed in Assam's history for thwarting the Mughal Army in the 1671 naval 'Battle of Saraighat' on River Brahmaputra. </p>
<p>Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to stay at the Kaziranga National Park and undertake a jungle safari during his two-day visit to <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/assam">Assam</a> from March 8, an official said on Wednesday.</p><p>Modi is scheduled to arrive at Kaziranga in the evening of March 8 and stay the night, before taking a safari inside the park the next morning and then leave for Jorhat to attend a series of programmes.</p><p>Assam Forest and Environment Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary visited the Kaziranga National Park on Tuesday and held a series of meetings with senior officials, including Chief Secretary Paban Borthakur and Director General of Police G P Singh, to finalise arrangements for the prime minister's visit.</p>.<p>The authorities have made arrangements for both jeep and elephant safaris inside the park, the official said.</p><p>Kaziranga was declared a national park in February 1974 and is celebrating the golden jubilee of the event this year.</p><p>On March 9, the prime minister is scheduled to unveil the over 125-ft-high bronze statue of legendary Ahom general Lachit Barphukan at Jorhat.</p>.PM Modi offers prayers at Madurai's Meenakshi Amman Temple.<p>He is also scheduled to lay the foundation stone of Sivasagar Medical College, participate in the 'Griha Pravesh' (house-warming) ceremony for 5.5 lakh homes constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) and address a public meeting at Meleng Meteli Pothar in Jorhat.</p><p>Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had on February 15 visited the statue of Lachit Barphukan, located at Ahom general's 'maidam' (memorial), at Lahdoigarh in Hollongapar area of the district.</p><p>Sarma had said that the area will be developed as a Lachit Barphukan Cultural Centre and two museums -- one on the Ahom era and the other a war museum with artefacts of that period will also be set up in the precincts.</p><p>Barphukan is famed in Assam's history for thwarting the Mughal Army in the 1671 naval 'Battle of Saraighat' on River Brahmaputra. </p>