North Bengal to get a new touch before the puja holidays. The State Government has put up plan to entice tourist to North Bengal and the plans are been initiated to surprise holiday makers, when they come to the region in the month of October, which is also a tourist season in the region.
Ragvendra Singh,
the state tourism secretary is presently touring the hills to stock the infrastructure
that need renovation to put in a place. The recently formed task forces have
already started their work to improve the infrastructure and properties to
accommodate tourists.
Ragvendra Singh
said “We will come up with 30 Swiss cottages in Dooars and the hills.
Renovation work of Morgan House, Tashiding and the Hill Top, properties owned
by the West Bengal Tourism Development Corporation in Kalimpong has started. We
have already started our work and it will get over by the October.
The new tourism
task force created by the Mamta Banerjee will monitor the implementation of the
tourism projects in North Bengal and for the new tourism projects. The task
force is acting on a single platform for the promotion of tourism as all the
officials or the almost all departments have been made members.
Ragvendra Singh
is the chairperson of the task force and other members of the team include
forest and environmental secretary, land reforms commissioner and the DGHC
administrator.
The task force
is working on the project to promote the adventurous tourism sports in the
hills in the big way. Ragvendra Singh said, “We want to hold camps for angling,
pitch tents from where rafting has started.
To woo tourist
in Doors, the government has already started the development projects and has
started setting up tourism parks at Gojaldoba, Saili and Kunjanagar in the
Dooars. Works are on progress to create new trekking routes and a watch towers
is to be set in Buxa Tiger Reserve for
which a work has already started.
Renovation work
of the tourism properties at Tilabari, Murti, Madarihat and Betabari is also
expected to start soon. “we plan to introduce new tourism package which would
cover Darjeeling and Doors for the next tourism season. For the package, we are
also working out on a number of activities for the visitors,” Said Ragvendra
Singh.
Ref: hamro darjeeling
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