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| Tourism sector in Jammu region being neglected | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Oct 9: Those connected with tourism, including hoteliers, traders and transporters continue to blame the successive Government in the state and in the centre for neglecting tourism sector in the Jammu region.
In this context members of the Patnitop Development Agency have alleged that 90 per cent of the central financial assistance for development of tourist resorts and other infrastructure was being spent in the Kashmir valley. They said that the successive state Governments have failed to implement their commitment on setting a Gandola project in Patnitop on the pattern the state has in Gulmarg.
The PDA members said while on one hand the Gandola project was being extended in Gulmarg area on the other work was yet to be started on the project in Patnitop.
Several hoteliers said that delay in development of infrastructure, including roads, sewage system, luxurious hotels and huts in Patnitop had not attracted even a fraction of Vaishno Devi pilgrims to this tourist resort.
They said several thousand crores of rupees had been spent on development and conservation of the Dal Lake in Srinagar during the last 35 years but as far as the development of lakes in Jammu region, including Surinsar and Mansar, were concerned not even Rs.50 lakhs had been earmarked for it.
Experts said that if new tourist resorts in the Jammu region were developed to the extent that it could attract just 20 per cent of the Vaishnov Devi pilgrim traffic it would give a new boost to the region's economy.
They said about 80 lakh pilgrims visit annually the Vaishnov Devi shrine and even if 10 lakh pilgrims visit, before or after their pilgrimage, different tourist resorts in the region it could give a new fillip to the income and profits of hoteliers, transporters and trader
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