The central government team from the ministry of tourism has visited the different project sites like Bhagwati Nagar, Suchetgarh, Mubarak Mandi heritage complex in Jammu division to take stock of the ongoing work in the development projects under centrally sponsored schemes PMRP, PMDP (Swadesh Darshan). Bharti Sharma, ADG – tourism, Government of India and Vaibhava Tripathi, ADG, ministry of tourism were briefed by the secretary (tourism) of J&K, Farooq A Shah, through an audio visual presentation about the progress on the above said projects in Jammu Division.
Under these centrally sponsored schemes, Patnitop has got seven projects costing Rs 18.21 crore, Baderwah has nine projects costing Rs 35.16 crore, Poonch has got five projects costing Rs 19.11 crore, Lakhapur Sarthal has five projects worth Rs 18.91 crore, Kishtwar has eight projects worth Rs 35 crore, Rajouri has five projects worth Rs 17.82 crore. Besides this, rural tourism development has got 70 projects worth Rs 15 lakh each approximately and for the whole circuit development, three projects of Lakhimpur Basholi Bani Sarthal circuit, Baderwah Kishtwar Sinthan circuit and Jammu Rajouri Poonch circuit will also be developed under Swadesh Darshan programme.
Under PMDP, mega projects like Mantalai Shud Mahadev Patnitop project at the cost of Rs 98 crore and Jammu Rajouri Shopian Pulwama project worth Rs 96.3 crore were also discussed.
Shah also briefed the team about Ranjit Sagar Dam development project. The inspection team showed satisfaction for the ongoing projects and asked the state tourism department to speed up and complete the work without any delay.