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Ranchi, July 22: The Jharkhand government’s new tourism policy 2021 will hope to rejuvenate the sector that has been hit the hardest due to the pandemic. The policy that will be launched by Chief Minister Hemant Soren will aim to foster a thriving tourism ecosystem.
The growth of adventure activities, including paragliding, water sports, rock climbing, and motor gliding, is an intriguing part of tourism policy. The policy also emphasizes promoting wellness tourism.
The Department of Tourism and Art and Culture, the Government of Jharkhand, and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) will jointly host a program in New Delhi to announce the Jharkhand Tourism Policy 2021. The policy focuses on promoting options for weekend getaways as well as eco, adventure, wellness, rural, and mining tourism.
“The launch of a new tourism policy would help Jharkhand embark on a journey to establish itself as one of the premier tourist destinations in India,” explained Development Commissioner Arun Kumar Singh.
Notably, the previous tourism policies of 2015 or 2020 placed more emphasis on promoting the natural beauty of the state and taking the state’s tourism to a global level.
However, apart from these, the tourism policy has also paid special emphasis to promote adventure sports activities as well, which was missing earlier. Considering Jharkhand is home to various waterfalls and water bodies, this initiative can be proved to be a good decision.
The tourism department also conducted three-day adventure activities at Patratu and Ramgarh from July 11 to 13 to promote adventure sports in the state and it received a positive response.
Additionally, incentives and subsidies are available to both domestic and foreign investors. A single-window system would make it feasible to grant licenses, incentives, and subsidies. To promote public-private initiatives, built-operate-transfer (BOT), built-own-operate-transfer (BOOT), and built-lease-transfer (BLT) modalities have been proposed. The processes for international technical cooperation and investments by foreign corporate entities and NRIs have been adopted.
One of the policy’s main goals is the development of Parasnath, Madhuban, and Itkhori as destinations for religious pilgrimage. demonstrating the state’s enormous potential for ecotourism through the creation of eco-circuits like the Latehar-Netarhat-Betla-
