No vehicular entry in airport causing set back to Jammu tourism: Wazir

Excelsior Correspondent
KATRA, Feb 3: Hotel & Restaurant Association president and Co-Chairman PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industries, Rakesh Wazir today said that restriction on vehicular entry inside the Jammu Airport was causing a big set back to the tourism here.
In a meeting held here today at Katra, wherein Chairman of the Association Shyam Lal Kesar was also present,  Wazir said it was  surprising that the vehicles of tourists and public coming or going to Jammu Airport are forced to stop outside Jammu Airport on the name of security  whereas the real sensitive airports like Srinagar, Delhi, Mumbai etc. and  Railway Stations like Banihal,Srinagar, Anantnag, Baramulla and other such sensitive places have got vehicular access upto the last point of dropping.
“Despite overall availability of all the facilities there, the deliberately created discomforts at both arrival and departure for all the air passengers at  Jammu Airport alone are very much irritating the tourists/ pilgrims,” he said.
“It is really astonishing that air passengers are got down of their vehicles quite away 350 meters ahead of Airport Authority fixed arrival/departure points and all patients, infirm, old, women children and the young are compelled to walk on foot, carrying on their heavy luggage on their heads, infants in laps covering that long distance and finally to reach the Airport,” he added.
Wazir further said such restrictions in a peaceful place like Jammu city was a deliberated move to show this city also as one of militancy effected cities like Srinagar, Banihal,Anantnag, Kabul and Iraq etc.
Shyam Lal Kesar said that such like affairs over here are badly effecting the tourism trade of J&K and needs to be set right forth- with.  “This is the only reason that J&K tourism, which was known world over and was at the top once, is now at the bottom, whereas the tourism places like Himachal,  Rajasthan, Kerala, Goa and Delhi etc, not visible at all sometimes back are now at the top,” he added and asked for correcting  such  anti- tourism moves.
The meet urged the Tourism Minister and the Chief Minister to intervene  into the matter for early and immediate redressal thereof.
The meeting was attended by  Virender Kesar,  Kuldeep Dubey, Ajay Kotwal, Karan Wazir, Sumit Khajuria, Nishant Sharma, Vivek Sharma  and others.

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