Rs. 451 crore MoU for tourism development of heritage places in Gujarat

Gandhinagar: The tourism department of the state signed MoUs worth around Rs 451 crore with the owners of heritage properties in the presence of CM BHupendra Patel in Gandhinagar.

CM Patel virtually dedicated the heritage policy portal and various tourism facilities at Governor hill in Saputara, Sasan Gir village and Dandi in the program ‘Gujarat Na Bhavya Varsa’ organised by state tourism department under Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. CM Patel said that the state government stands with the tourism professionals to restore the tourism sector- which was affected the highest during covid-19 pandemic. He said that the state government is also prepared for taking initiatives of giving incentives to restore the profession by executing ‘Atma Nirbhar Gujarat to Atmanirbhar Bharat’ in the tourism sector.

He informed about the provision of the budget for including the primary school of Vadnagar where PM Modi studied into heritage, and developing a 100 year old school of the Gaekwad regime into Prerna Kendra. The MoUs of developing the royal palaces at Vadodara, Rajkot, Santrampur, Devgadh Bariya, Balasinor and so on as heritage tourism places were made.on the occasion.

CM Patel said about the heritage policy portal that heritage property holders will be able to do processes from application to fee payment online. DeshGujarat