All- round improvement of J&K a big intention of GoI: Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee


SRINAGAR, JANUARY 21: In a initial of its form go to just after the Covid-19 outbreak, a delegation on Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transportation, Tourism and Tradition held a conference with stakeholders to overview and study the status of Highways/State Highways, potential and promotion of Tourism sector and preservation of archaeological and heritage web-sites in Jammu and Kashmir listed here these days.

The Committee led by its Chairman, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha T.G Venkatesh held threadbare discussion on the enhancement of Road, Railway and Air Connectivity throughout the meeting.

Speaking on the celebration, Chairman explained that the all-spherical progress of UT is a key target of Federal government of India. He stated the Committee is on a check out to understand the difficulties of residents of J&K to resolve them. He reported that the committee is listed here to pay attention to the stakeholders about constraints precisely currently being faced by them in these sectors like street transportation and what steps are wanted to be taken to assure that the highways in J&K match global ideal expectations and street protection actions remaining taken in J&K.

The Chairman also claimed that the Committee shall also consider stock of the promotion of Tourism sector vis-à-vis tapping domestic tourism, promotion of rural and journey tourism, lodge infrastructure and development of highways for much better highway transportation connectivity.

During the assembly a variety of representatives from tour, journey and hospitality sector symbolizing KCCI, Hotelier Club, TAAK, Endeavor, PILTOF, HBOA, CTT, AKTO, NTTA, HSG and DTOAK elevated many troubles linked to far better connectivity and marketing of Tourism sector.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee, presently on 3 working day take a look at to Kashmir is led by Chairman of the Committee T.G Venkatesh and other MPs of the delegation on go to to Srinagar involve Prassana Acharya, Vinay Dinn Tendulkar, Margani Bharat, Rahul Kaswan, Ramesh Chandra Majhi, Chhedi Paswan, Kamlesh Paswan, Sunil Kumar Pintu, Tirath Singh Rawat, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Ramdas Chandrabhanji Tadas and Krupal Balaji. Dr Jitendra Singh, Union MoS Key Minister’s Workplace and Dr Farooq Abdullah MP Srinagar also attended the assembly. In addition to, senior officers from Ministry of Tourism Govt of India, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir P. K Pole, Secretary Tourism J&K Sarmad Hafeez,, Deputy Commissioner Srinagar Shahid Iqbal, Director Tourism, Director Archives & Archaeology, CGM NHAI, GM NHAI, ADG MoRTH and other senior officers had been also current on the occasion.

The conference was also joined by senior officers of the UT Administration by means of movie conferencing organized by NIC Srinagar.
