J&K govt not serious about Jammu tourism projects: AJHLA

 All Jammu Hotels & Lodges Association (AJHLA), a trade panel advocating cause of Jammu, today criticised the J&K government''s attitude towards implementation of tourism related projects in the Jammu region.
"We flay non-seriousness and dilly dallying adopted by the J&K government in taking up and implementing tourism related projects in Jammu region", AJHLA President Inderjeet Khajuria told reporters here today.
Khajuria added that the state government authorities are talking about the laying of ropeway between Mubarak Mandi, Bahu Fort and Mahamaya for about two decades now.
AJHLA president was responding to a statement by Minister for Tourism and Culture Rig Jin Jora stating that all technical codal and land acquiring formalities of the same are still to be completed.
"To learn that the technical codal and land acquisition formalities of the said project are yet to be completed is highly disappointing. It indicates hoodwinking of the people by the government", he said, adding that no concrete steps have been taken to execute the project.
While many chair car and ropeway projects in the Kashmir valley have either been commissioned or are going to be completed shortly, the ropeway project of Mubarak Mandi-Bahu Fort-Mahamaya is still only on the papers, Khajuria said.