Tuesday, 20 June 2023 | PNS | DEHARDUN
In Dehradun latest news, while taking a meeting on ecotourism and digitalisation of government land record in the Secretariat, the State chief secretary S S Sandhu has directed all the district magistrates and the DFOs to firm up proposals focused on ecotourism as provider of maximum livelihood opportunities for the locals. He stressed on lands being earmarked for ecotourism activities and the DPRs being prepared. He said that the State is endowed with immense potential of the development of astro villages and camping as well.
Speaking of the employment generation potential of ecotourism, Sandhu said that it can happen both alongside the Char Dham Yatra routes and other routes. He further said that to raise tourist footfalls in those places where tourists hardly arrive, locals should be trained as guides and they may be given conditional honorariums so that they are encouraged to work energetically to ensure the arrival of tourists.
