JORHAT, Dec 10: Come winter and picnics and outings become the favourite pastime of the people. Jorhat boasts of Kokilamukh, the favourite spot for picnickers here and from outside. The undulating white sand dunes and beaches by the Brahmaputra are thronged by revellers from December to February. This year too, there seems to be no difference with people preferring the nearer site to places located at a distance.
This Sunday saw crowds throng Kokilamukh with bus loads of students as well as individual groups enjoying the scenic landscape with the Shanti Ashram in the backdrop and flocks of birds disturbed by the noise, taking flight and whirling overhead.
Many picnickers were, however, disappointed by the lack of beautification or sight seeing at a place which is known as a birds paradise with a variety of migratory species alighting here every winter.
“The raw landscape and water bodies dotting the area could easily be converted into a tourist spot especially at this time of the year, Ajit Sonowal, one of the revellers who had gone to Kokilamukh said.
Others were of the same opinion and felt that the Government should have taken up a project to turn the place into something more than a picnic spot.
Picnics would have gone on here but the Government is losing good revenue by not developing the place, was the general opinion.
Kokilamukh also has a historical background. It was here that Chandra Kanta Singha, one of the last of the Ahom kings was defeated by the Burmese. Another Ahom king Pratap Singha constructed a road along the Brahmaputra known as Bar-Ali from Dergaon to Garhgaon and Kokilamukh was an important place which touched this route. Later, the British first started their ferry service from Kokilamukh Ghat, and it was in 1912, that Nigamanda Param Shankha established the Shanti Ashram here. THE SENTINEL
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