STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: A meeting was held by Jammu & Kashmir Religious Tourism Culture & Heritage at Jammu.
The meeting was held in order to promote religious tourism in J&K under the Chairmanship of Rajesh Gupta (President VHP and Tourism Federation), Adv. Purnima Sharma, Deputy Mayor JMC and Mahant Bittu. Speaking during the meeting, Adv. Purnima said that the meeting was organised to share ideas about how can all the religious places, heritage places and the culture of Jammu Kashmir can be uplifted among the tourists and nationally so as to promote tourism in the UT.
She further said that also discussion was conducted on how to develop the different religions tourist places and how make them easily accessible to the locals and tourists. As with this every tourist will be able to easily visit religious place and know about its importance in the history of J&K and also it will promote Sanatan Dharam.
During the meeting, it was decided to form a trust in which Mahant Rajesh Bittu and Adv. Purnima Sharma were nominated as the Chief Patrons and the Trust being formed will be managed by Er. Harish Sharma as the President of the Trust and also an advisory council is being formed for the trust.
Mahant Rajesh Bittu further added that just as the wine shops are banned in Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra, on the same analogy the same should be banned near other religious places like Sudmahadev, Devka, Purmandal, Baba Sidhgori, Uttervani, Maa Sukrala, Sarthala, Baba Paeed Devta and many more.
Also the construction of roads linking the religious places and providing easy commute to the tourists should be taken up on war footing basis so that they can be completed as soon as possible. Mahant Rajesh Bittu further said that soon a high level program under the banner of Religious tourism will be held in which a high level discuss shall be held for the promotion of religious tourism in J&K.
At the end Mahant Rajesh Bittu while thanking Rajesh Gupta President VHP and all the other members present during the meeting said that a website has also been launched for the public to connect with Religious tourism and heritage which will be available publicly in which the people can tell us about the Religious and heritage locations of their areas so that they can be promoted in order to promote religious and Heritage tourism in J&K UT.
Kusum Khajuria, Khem Raj, Kapil Verma, Kuldeep Singh, Purshotam Singh, Kaka Ram, Davinder Singh Jasrotia, Anil Singh , Anil Kumar Lambardar, Harish Sharma and many more from Samba, Hiranagar, Sagoon, Aithem, Udhampur, Kathua, Mirpur, Chowala, R S Pura were present during the meeting.