It is encouraging to know that the Chief Minister is deeply interested in bringing Jammu region on the tourist map of the State and the country. For long the people of Jammu have been complaining of negligence on the part of Tourism Department in exploring and exploiting many tourist spots in Jammu region so as to give a boost to tourist industry in the State. While the complaint has been there for a long time, the authorities also were obsessed with the notion that only Kashmir presented fair opportunity of developing tourist industry and attracting local as well as foreign tourists. They somewhat ignored both Jammu as well as Ladakh regions.
Only recently the Chief Minister while chairing the Patnitop Development Authority meeting ordered that the proposed Patnitop Aerial Ropeway be commissioned as early as possible after it was given clearance by the cabinet. He has now focused his attention on other spots in Jammu region and issued instructions to the Tourism Department to present him the blue print of the new sites that would come under the purview of tourist spots for development. Patnitop, Batote, Sanasar, Mantalai, Bhaderwah, Mansar, Mughal Road, and many more spots can be and should be developed for diversification of tourist inflow. The Tourist Department should not confine itself to the religious tourism only of which there is no dearth in Jammu region. Pilgrimage tourism has great scope of diversification. Now that the Chief Minister is interested in developing Jammu tourism, this should be the beginning of a new era of tourist industry for Jammu.
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