The Tourism Department is working on a plan where retired security personnel of para military would be employed as tourist police. The idea is to use expertise of the security sense of the forces of the past to revive the industry in the State which is suffering under immense threat of naxals.
“Jharkhand is important place in terms of tourism and we in the Government are of the view that security environment should be improved first hand. We are working to deploy security personnel who have retired from the force as tourist police,” said RP Singh, Special Secretary in the Tourism Department.
This apart, the Department is also working to link all the tourist spots in the State in purposeful manner so that those can be exploited in their full potential. “We are working with the Mecon, which has submitted plan for developing tourism clusters in the State. Some of the clusters can be like Ranchi-Dasam Fall-Deori Temple, Betla-Netarhat, Koderma-Hazaribagh-Rajrappa etc. Tilaiya Dam can be developed for adventure sports while Hazaribagh as national forest safari,” added the official, while talking in Jharkhand Mining Conclave organised by Indian Chamber of Commerce on Monday.
There is plan prepared by Mecon for developing Ranchi lake which would promote lots of activities to attract tourism.
“We are going to present a DPR in July first week and may be by January the work would be started on ground. The main island would be statue of Vivekananda while the other would have a meditation center. Both of these would be linked through electric cars like Mumbai sea link for disabled persons as well. We are working in that direction,” said Rana Chakravarty, General Manager (Infrastructure) with Mecon.
Deputy Director with Department of Mines and Geology Shankar Sinha informed that the Department is in an advanced stage for auctioning copper, limestone, gold, graphite after becoming the first State to go for mines auctioning.
“We would do it shortly. Also there is about Rs 1000 crore of district mineral foundation out of the royalty coming in which is would be utilized for the welfare of the local people. Tori-Macluskiganj-Barkakhana is would be the biggest dry port of the region in the days to come,” said Sinha.
He also added that digitization work of mining lease area is underway and with the help of IT application and surveillance a tab can be kept up to two meters of a mine boundary.