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Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) has come in for criticism from the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) for failing to develop tourist facilities in the State.
MTDC being the State’s public undertaking in the tourism sector, incorporated specifically to promote and develop tourism, should have made great strides in developing tourist facilities, a CAG report said.
However, it has neither identified critical/nodal areas for effecting micro level planning to augment tourism nor evolved clear milestones which were overall or destination specific for development of tourism in the State, it said.
The report observed that the number of foreign tourists availing the MTDC’s infrastructural facilities was negligible.
Though tourists visiting in the State indicated an increasing trend during the period 2005-06 to 2009-10, the arrival of foreign tourists in the State was less than 10 per cent of the total number of tourists visiting the State.
Similarly, the number of foreign tourists who availed MTDC facilities was negligible, the report said.
In 2005-06, the number of foreigners who visited the State was 4,678 which dropped to 2,008 in 2009-10, it said.
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