ORANG (Rajiv Gandhi) National Park is a miniature Kaziranga. But infrastructure is poor. Staff morale is low. There are 56 rhinoceroses, 20 tigers and seven elephants in the 72 sq km park spread over from Silbori North up to Brahmaputra River in the South. Silbori is 18 km from   Orang. By road, the Park is about 150 km from Guwahati on the north bank of the Brahmaputra and 32 km from Tezpur.This natural habitat attracts four thousand tourists from all over the country and abroad every year.

The employees of the Park are getting their salary irregularly. There are 31 master-rolled employees who have been getting Rs 900 only per month where their due salary is Rs 2,200.  decade ago, in 1993, Chief Minister Hiteshwar Saikia promised to assured to regularise the job of these workers. No action has been taken to fulfil the promise till date, lament employees. The Park has 31 camps but there is no adequate staff to man them. In fact for four camps there is only a single guard each.

A worker Harbeswar Saikia is missing since three years. He disappeared while on duty. No body in authority appears to worry about him except his family. Every year, the park is inundated by hit by floods to Brahmaputra and its tributaries Pashnoi and Dhansree. To meet the watery emergency, the Park has a motor launch. It has just sunk. And Rs. 1.5 lakh the cost of the launch have met with watery grave.

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