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Thursday, Mar 24, 2005
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Tourism Tourism Ministry plans to move Cabinet for visa-on-arrival Our Bureau
The Tourism Minister, Ms Renuka Chowdhury, with the CII President, Mr S.K. Munjal, at the inaugural session of the `National Conference on Tourism' in the Capital on Wednesday. - Kamal Narang
New Delhi , March 23 IN a move that should give a boost to international tourist arrivals, the Ministry of Tourism is moving a note before the Union Cabinet to provide visa-on-arrival to visitors. "The Home Ministry is looking at the issue. We hope to move a note for the Union Cabinet," the Minister for Tourism, Ms Renuka Chowdhury, said here on Wednesday. The Minister was speaking at the `National conference on tourism: India's north-east paradise unexplored' organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry and the Ministry of Tourism. The Government also plans to review the Restricted Area Permit that limits the number of places that a tourist can visit in the North-East. "We have written to the Home Ministry to have a re-look at the issue and do away with it in those States where it is not relevant. There has been some response and we should be able to knock it off," the Minister said. Calling on the North-East States to attract more tourists, the Minister also made an appeal to each of the States to maintain their own identity. "Numbers are not always nice. I do not want numbers rolling there and ruining the bio-diversity of the region," Ms Chowdhury said. Addressing the conference, the Minister of Tourism, Commerce and Industries, Sikkim, Mr R.B. Subba, said there was demand for resorts, hotels, restaurants, better rail and reasonable air connectivity, entertainment among others. "Investors have plenty of choices. They may invest and start their own business, or may go for joint ventures with a local private company or a Government undertaking," Mr Subba said.
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