Team Blitz India
THE Government of Maharashtra has decided to construct guest houses in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh and Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir. For these two Maharashtra Bhavans, it has made a provision of Rs 77 crore in the Interim Budget 2024-25 tabled recently in the state Assembly. The money will be used for buying land in prime locations which have already been identified by the respective governments in the two states.
During the Budget session, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who also holds the Finance portfolio shared that a slew of other projects aimed at boosting tourism were under way in the state.
A world-class skywalk Project with an estimated cost of Rs 333.56 crore will be constructed at the hill station of Lonavala in Pune. To promote tourism in the Konkan region, 32 Shivaji-era forts will be renovated and conserved, the government announced.
High quality facilities will be made available for tourists at Lonar in Buldhana, Ajanta-Verul in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Kalsubai-Bhandardara in Ahmadnagar and Trimbakeshwar in Nashik and the sea forts of Konkan. Innovative water tourism projects will be operationalised in Shivsagar Reservoir in Satara, Gosikhurd Reservoir in Bhandara and Waghur Reservoir in Jalgaon.
Proposals will be invited from international architects for redevelopment of government buildings at Mantralaya and surrounding areas with stateof-the-art facilities. Land has been reserved for the Mahatma Phule Wada and Kranti Jyoti Savitribai Phule memorials in the Development Plan of the city of Pune and the process of preparing the plan for the memorials is in progress. Government land and funds will be made available for the memorial of Sant Gorobakaka Maharaj in Dharashiv district.
