The Ram Bagh Deorhi in Amritsar. photo tribune
Neeraj Bagga
Amritsar, August 31
Despite spending millions of euros on the recovery and renovation of a number of projects to attract tourists, many sites in the holy city are closed for lack of good enough staff.
There are only 4 tourism agents and 3 guides in the Department of Tourism and the Punjab Heritage and Tourism Promotion Board (PHTPB) has only two engineers. The PHTPB office, unlike Qila Gobindgarh, is also closed.
Similarly, a recently restored historic building at Ram Bagh Chowk, characterized by its long doors, is closed and has been tasked with converting a component of the Ram Bagh police station into a museum with antique artifacts, uniforms, FIR and other police-related fabrics. suspended the fire.
Personnel are needed for the control of Golden Temple Square, Memorial to the Fallen, Sadda Pind, Gobindgarh Fort, Maharaja Ranjit Singh Museum and Panorama, Pul Kanjri, a tourist related to the Maharaj and several others.
The State Cabinet approved the Amritsar Tourism and Cultural Development Authority Bill in 2016 for the effective operation of all tourism projects. However, six years later, no initiative has been taken to make it happen.
According to the bill, the authority will be an independent entity, independent of the Punjab Department of Tourism and the Punjab Heritage Tourism Promotion Council. In addition, you will get a separate annual budget for heritage projects.
One hotelier, Satnam Singh, said a promised framework for control of tourism projects would be for the maintenance of government assets.
Only tourism agents, 3 guides with dept.
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