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| Cash starved Govt. to spend Rs.1.61 crores on conservation of Gulmarg Palace | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, June 10 : The Government plan to conserve and develop Maharaja's palace at the famous ski resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir into a convention centre has been delayed for want of timely sanction to the Gulmarg Development Authority by the state Government.
Critics of the plan argue that was it worth for a cash starved state Government or the Gulmarg Development Authority to carry out conservation of the palace for the purpose of a convention centre when a major convention centre already exists in Srinagar.
However, senior functionaries of the Department of Tourism said that since the palace has been declared as a heritage site "we wanted to convert it into a convention centre which could attract major convention tourism."
Explaining it they said that once the palace was developed into a convention centre major national and international conferences and seminars could be held in Gulmarg even during the winter season when the meadow of flowers, as Gulmarg is called, receives a large number of tourists keen to go in for skiing and skating."
Official sources said that the Maharaja's Palace at the famous ski resort of Gulmarg has been declared as a heritage site by Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), and a plan has been conceived for developing it into a convention centre to hold tourism-related conferences at the national and international level.
The conservation work of the Palace, costing Rs 1.61 crore, has been prepared by INTACH to develop and preserve the heritage site as a convention centre in two phases to hold national and international level tourism-related conferences.
The Gulmarg Development Authority (GDA) has been directed to immediately start conservation work on the Palace.
The instructions to the Gulmarg Development Authority had been issued over seven months and it was recently that the Authority has invited tenders for the conservation of the Palace. In the first phase Rs.96 lakhs are to be spent on the conservation work and over Rs.65 lakhs will be spent on further development of the palace under the second phase.
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