Rs. 500 Crore Set Aside in the Current Financial Year to Create Five Tourist Circuits

The General Budget 2014-15 proposes to create 5 tourist circuits around specific themes for which a sum of Rs. 500 crore has been set aside in the current financial year. In his maiden Budget Speech in the Parliament here today, the Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley said that India's rich cultural, historical, religious and natural heritage provides a huge potential for the development of tourism and job creation as an industry. Sarnath-Gaya-Varanasi Buddhist circuit would also be developed with world class tourist amenities to attract tourists from all over the world, he added. The Finance Minister also announced the launching of National Heritage city Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) for conserving and preserving the heritage characters of these cities. The programme will be launched in the cities such as Mathura, Amritsar, Gaya, Kanchipuram, Vellankani, and Ajmer with a provision of Rs. 200 crore in the current Budget. The project will work through a partnership of Government, Academic Institutions and local community combining affordable technologies.

Source : Press Information Bureau

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