Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 6: All Jammu Hotels & Lodges Association (AJHLA) has blamed PDP-BJP coalition Government for taking least interest in the promotion of otherwise derailed Jammu tourism and deliberately ignoring the completion of ongoing Jammu tourism projects for making Jammu city as an independent tourist destination.
Expressing serious concern and doubts about the sincerity of the Coalition Government, president, AJHLA, Inderjeet Khajuria, said that since the day the Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed declared Artificial Lake Project on Tawi River as unviable, practically no work has been done and it seems that the project has been dumped despite lot of assurances and statements issued by the Deputy Chief Minister, Minister for Irrigation & Flood Control and MLA Rajesh Gupta that the project will be completed as per aspirations and dreams of Jammuites.
With the financial year heading towards its closure and practically no work on the completion of the Lake project, Jammuites have turned suspicious in view of the fact that the Rs 70 crore Artificial lake project which had attained the status of nearing completion with more than 80% works completed except for construction of diversion channels for 15 city nallahs and big drains for diverting entry of filth and garbage from the neat and clean lake water.
He said the project, which was to be completed during July 2013, jumped commissioning deadlines one after the other and ultimately with the change of guards in the State it has fallen prey to the whims and fancies of the politicians who are bent upon to ruin the Jammu tourism which will adversely tell upon the health of more than 5 lakh souls dependent on Jammu traders who are already on the verge of starvation.
Khajuria urged the State Government to ensure the completion of this prestigious city beautification project well before the close of the financial year otherwise tourism related traders will have no other alternative but to resort to agitation against the high handedness and total neglect of Jammu tourism development.
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