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| Rumours about leasing out Yusmarg to Army totally baseless: Rather | | Srinagar,August 19, (Scoop News)- The Minister for Finance and Ladakh Affairs, Mr Abdul Rahim Rather has described the rumours ,spread by some vested interests, that the tourist resort Yusmarg is proposed to be leased out to army , as totally baseless and far from truth.
Mr Rather has said that Yusmarg is one of the famous tourist resorts of the state and the Government is keen to develop it for domestic and international tourists. He said some major initiatives have already been taken for this purpose adding that Yusmarg Development Authority (YDA) is in place which has already started building tourist infrastructure in Yusmarg for promotion of tourism besides exploiting tourism potential in it’s adjacent areas.
He said main emphasis is on to develop the area as Eco- Tourism at macro level owing to it’s virgin beauty. “In fact, services of a reputed Consortium Geo Tech Consultants, which is constantly doing alignment job of J&K Cable Car Corporation, have also been hired to undertake survey and pre- feasibility report for construction of a modern Chair Lift Project between Yusmarg to Bargah and Yusmarg to Nilnag which will go a long way to promote Yusmarg as a favourite and preferred tourist plac,”Mr Rather added. He said Master Plan for Yusmarg for 2009-2014 is actively under implementation which does not allow any kind of violation in it’s land use .” Under these conditions, all apprehensions about leasing out Yusmarg to Army are totally incorrect,” Mr Rather maintained. He said YDA has spend a whooping sum of about Rs.16 cr for infrastructural development in Yusmarg during last about 3 years.
The Minister said that it was beyond ones imagination to think of leasing out a developed tourist resort to Army for it’s artillery operations. He said it seems some defeated elements are deliberately raking up a non existing issue to vitiate the atmosphere of peace and development just to satiate their petty interests. Mr Rather has asked the people to be vigilant against the machinations of such disruptive forces who are bend upon to exploit sentiments and emotions of the innocent people on one pretext or the other.
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