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| Blasting at Mata Vashno Devi shrine condemned | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 27: All Jammu Hotels & Lodges Association has expressed serious concern over the r eport that mining activity is going to be undertaken in the Tri-kuta Hills, with blasting to be allowed at a distance of less than 3 kms from Mata Vashnio Devi Shrine. The report that the Central Ministry for Forest and Environment has given permission for the blasting and drilling work to be taken up hardly 3 kms from the Shrine is highly disturbing, AJHLA has rued. A meeting of the Jammu hoteliers association held here today under the chairmanship of its president, Inderjeet Khajuria has said that undertaking of mining activity to extract magnesite will adversely affect the ecology of fragile Trikuta mountains, the abode of the benign goddess Mata Vash-nio Devi, where over 1 crore pilgrims visit annually. The blasting in the area and mining activity will also vitiate the serene and holy environs and atmosphere of the area. It will also hurt the religious sentiments of the people from all over the country paying visit to the holy Shrine to pay their obscene.
The association has further stated that the extraction of magneside as economically viable and profitable venture is in doubt, since in the past extraction of coal in the nearby Jungle Gali area and also in the Kalakot mines has proved only a wild goose chase. But there is every apprehension of pilgrim tourism, which has brought great economic boom to the area, Jammu region and the state as a whole may receive a set back. The exercise will be like chasing two birds in the bushes risking the loss of one in hand, AJHLA has suggested. The tourism related trades and the hospitality industry has a great stake in the pilgrimage tourism to the Shrine and hence has the reason to feel concerned over the development, Khajuria has said. The others who attending the meeting included Ajay Gupta Sr. Vice President, B.S. Manhas Vice President, Pawan Gupta General Secretary, Baldev Treasurer, Sunil Suri and Vikramjeet Singh Secretaries. |
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