Overview
- In a November 19 letter, Prasanta Kumar Saikia asked UNESCO Director-General Khaled el-Enany to send a fact‑finding or monitoring team for the proposed corridor.
- The petitioner urged UNESCO to press the Centre and Assam to halt construction until a thorough ecological evaluation is completed.
- The government-backed plan involves a roughly 34–35 km elevated stretch along the park’s southern periphery spanning nine animal corridors, executed on EPC mode with 30.22 km of widening and 21 km of greenfield bypasses.
- The project, approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has a previously announced foundation‑stone timeline targeted around January 2026.
- Saikia argues the works would breach World Heritage obligations by disrupting animal movement and breeding through prolonged noise, vibrations and heavy machinery, while no UNESCO response or construction suspension was reported.