Tourists inside a igloo cafe, at Gulmarg in Baramulla | file picture
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After a “record surge” in tourism in Jammu and Kashmir, some politicians are also having a leisure time in Kashmir and different components of the Union Territory, Union minister G. Kishan Reddy mentioned on Thursday.
He made the remarks whereas addressing a gathering at an occasion right here, with out naming anybody.
Recently, movies of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi snowboarding in Gulmarg in north Kashmir, and he and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra enjoying a experience on a snow scooter there went viral on social media.
“After Independence, the tourism footfall in Jammu and Kashmir has seen a record surge. If we look at figures for one year, in 2022, it was about 1.8 crore tourists in J&K,” the Union Tourism Minister mentioned.
Mr. Reddy mentioned earlier there have been “hardly any tourists”, however as we speak some politicians are “also playing there” and having a leisure time in Srinagar and different components of Jammu and Kashmir.
“It is a good thing, people must go, it is part of our India. That is the situation today, people are eager to visit Jammu and Kashmir,” he mentioned.
Mr. Reddy was addressing a operate held on the Institute of Hotel Management, Catering and Nutrition (IHM), Pusa, right here.
Union minister Reddy on August 4 final 12 months had mentioned that Jammu and Kashmir had registered a “record footfall” of vacationers at airports and sightseeing locations in the final a number of months resulting from “transformative initiatives” of the Narendra Modi authorities such because the abrogation of Article 370.
His feedback had come a day forward of the third anniversary of the revocation of the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir below Article 370 of the Constitution and the bifurcation of the erstwhile state into Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
It was on August 5, 2019, when the Centre ended the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir and restrictions imposed in the area had severely impacted tourism there.
In a serious intervention for the upliftment of the tourism sector in J&Okay, the Union authorities had made a report allocation of ₹786 crore in the finances for the tourism sector there, which was ₹509 crore increased than the final budgetary allocation, officers in Srinagar had mentioned in February 2022.
The officers had added the intent of the large budgetary allocation was to spice up tourism and allied companies in the union territory.
