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Kashmir based tourist taxis not allowed to operate upto Katra, taxi operators aghast
1/30/2015 10:59:23 PM
Jehangir Rashid

Early Times Report

SRINAGAR, Jan 30: The tourist taxi operators of Kashmir valley have voiced their concern that they are not being allowed to operate their services up to Katra in Jammu division. They have demanded intervention from Governor Narendra Nath Vohra in this regard. The tourist taxi operators have said that the traffic police personnel posted on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway not only harass the drivers, but also the tourists who intend to visit Katra while boarding Kashmir based tourist vehicles. They have termed the harassment as an infringement on the business interests of the taxi operators who are an integral part of tourism industry.
"At a time when the tour operators and the government are trying their best to get tourists to the state some of the people with vested interests are hell bent on destroying the same. The traffic police personnel posted on the National Highway at Nagrota do not allow tourists to visit Katra in Taxi with Kashmir registration," said Peerzada Faiyaz Ahmad, President Travel Agents Association of Kashmir (TAAK).
The TAAK President said that on January 29, a couple who were booked for stay in a hotel in Katra was not allowed to go beyond Nagrota check point on the pretext that they were travelling in a Taxi with Kashmir registration number. He said that even after repeated requests and pleas from the driver and the guests as well with production of proofs, the police did not heed to their truth that they were heading to Katra and not Kashmir.
"The tourists had to go back to Jammu, take a taxi with Jammu registration and then reach Katra late in the evening. This is a matter of serious nature that despite the requests of the travel trade to the Governor in presence of the DGP the police is acting in a way detrimental to the assertions and efforts of the whole tourism machinery government as well as private tour operators," said Faiyaz.
The TAAK President referred to the latest incident as an act of stubbornness. He said similar incidents are witnessed during the Amarnath yatra when the normal tourists are subjected to humiliation and discomfort. He said the members of travel trade are putting in their blood and all their savings in their efforts to revive tourism which brings in livelihood to lakhs of people of the three regions.
Faiyaz appealed the Director General of Police, Kondavati Rajendra and directorate of tourism and administration to direct the concerned officials down the line, that no tourists are harassed in the state while implementing their rules and directives. He said incidents that bring disrepute to the state should be avoided by the different stake holders.
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