The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) Chhattisgarh State Committee is organizing a workshop on Wildlife Photography on December 26 and 27 at Barnawapra Wildlife Sanctuary in the State.
The Mentor for the workshop would be Rathika Ramaswamy, one of the celebrated photographers of the country. This initiative by the Chamber is one of the first of its kind in the State, a PHDCCI press release issued here on Tuesday. The Chamber has been working in close association with the State in fulfilling its agenda of fostering growth. Through this unique initiative, PHDCCI intends to take Chhattisgarh to the horizon of many potential tourists and specifically to Wildlife Photography enthusiasts all over the country and beyond, it stated. It is going to be wonderful opportunity for all those people who are passionate about this field by have not been able to pursue the same due to lack of training or technical know-how, the press release stated.
Through this workshop a tradition will be set which would create models and mechanism to attract tourists and develop Wildlife Photography professionals.
Chhattisgarh can boast of a myriad of achievements over the last one and a half decades of its existence. However, there are still a plethora of areas where the potential of the State is yet to be tapped at the optimum level and one such genre is tourism. The field of tourism opens a lot of opportunity for the citizens of the State to earn their livelihood in various forms, it stated.
Wildlife sanctuaries are one of the principal points of attractions amongst the tourists all over the world and alongside has developed a sought after profession (for some people hobby, passion or interest) that is wildlife photography.
The State of Chhattisgarh with its numerous sanctuaries and national parks has immense potential to emerge as hub for “Wildlife Photography Tourism”. Certain initiatives on this front by organizing Wildlife Photography Tourism Workshops at different sanctuaries of the state would bring such spots to the limelight of tourism gentry and further develop a pool of Professional Photographers in the State, thus serve the dual purpose of promoting the state a hub for tourism and developing a specific livelihood skill amongst the people of the State.