Minister for Shipping Nitin Gadkari said here on Thursday that the Directorate General of lighthouses and lightships (DGll), Noida, had drawn up a plan to develop 78 lighthouses across the country, as tourist attractions under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model.
Addressing an Investors’ Summit on Development of lighthouses as Beacons of Tourism in Mumbai, Gadkari said that the 78 lighthouses which were being developed as tourist destinations by the DGll were among the 189 lighthouses in the country.
The lighthouses, identified for development as tourist destinations, are in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.