Government Proposes to Increase India’s Share in International Tourist arrival from 0.68 % to 1.00 % by 2016-17
Government Proposes to Increase India’s Share in
International Tourist arrival from 0.68 % to 1.00 % by 2016-17, says Dr. Mahesh
Sharma
Parliamentary Consultative Committee of Ministry of Tourism and Culture Meets
Parliamentary Consultative Committee of Ministry of Tourism and Culture Meets
Dr. Mahesh Sharma, the Minister of State (I/C) for
Tourism and Culture has said that the Ministry of Tourism has set
up a target to achieve 1.00 % share of International Tourist Arrivals by
2016-17 which is at present 0.68%. He was addressing the Meeting of Parliamentary
Consultative Committee attached to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism here
today.
The theme of the Meeting for M/o Tourism was “Swadesh Darshan
and PRASAD (Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation Drive) Schemes” and
the theme of M/o Culture was “Working of Zonal Cultural Centres.
The Minister said that India’s rich cultural, historical, religious and natural
heritage provides a huge potential for development of tourism and job creation.
He said “there is a need to raise the standards of existing tourist
destinations and develop new tourism destinations of global standards with the
integrated and well-coordinated efforts of Central and State
Governments.”
Dr. Sharma opined
that Religious Tourism is an important segment of domestic tourism in the
country and many important religions of the world have their major and minor
pilgrimage centres in different parts of the country. Better services and
infrastructure facilities at pilgrim sites can enrich the spiritual experience
of pilgrims.
The Minister
informed the Members that the Mission of two new schemes of the Ministry of
Tourism “Swadesh Darshan”and “PRASAD” is to develop theme based tourist
circuits and identify and develop pilgrimage tourist destinations. Both the
schemes are implemented in mission mode.
Referring to Zonal
Cultural Centres (ZCCs), he said that through them we develop and promote the
rich diversity of our country and also encourage folk and tribal arts and aid
the preservation of vanishing arts. Seven ZCCs preserve, innovate and
promote the projection and dissemination of arts in their concerned zone. A
Common Human Resource Development (HRD) Policy has been formulated for all ZCCs.
Soon, Sub-Centres of these ZCCs will be established in all States.
The Minister
informed the Members about the grand success of ‘First Rashtriya Sanskriti
Mahotsav’ organized by Ministry of Culture in coordination with all seven ZCCs
from 1st to 8th November, 2015 at IGNCA,
Janpath, New Delhi which will be institutionalized as an Annual Feature and now
will be organized in different parts of the country on Rotation basis. This
Mahotsav showcased unique element of Indian Culture i.e. Unity in Diversity and
received huge response from masses.
The Members of
Parliament who participated in the Meeting include – Smt. Aparupa Poddar; Shri
Chhedi Paswan; Shri Maheish Giri; Smt. Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah; Shri Nishikant
Dubey; Dr. Prabhas Kumar Singh; Shri Ram Swarop Sharma; and Shri Thangso Baite(All
Lok Sabha) and Shri Anubhav Mohanty; Shri B.K. Hariprasad; Shri
Narendra Budania; and Shri Ram Kumar Kashyap (All Rajya Sabha).
Shri N.K. Sinha, Secretary, Ministry of Culture and senior officers of Ministry
of Tourism and Culture were present in the Meeting.
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