Monday, January 23, 2023
Tourism has become an important revenue source for many states in India, one such being Uttar Pradesh.
As such, efforts are being made in all possible ways to boost tourism sector and increase the stakeholders in it, especially eco-tourism. The principal chief conservator of forests (PCCF), Uttar Pradesh, KP Dubey, with a similar aim, visited Katarniaghat and held a meeting on Sunday.
He discussed ways to extend eco-tourism to villages adjacent to Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary (KWS) with forest officials, NGOs and local people, the Hindustan Times reported.
The PCCF stressed on four aspects: conservation, culture, culinary skill and cleanliness to increase earnings of local people through village tourism. He was of the view that if villagers started giving homestay facilities to tourists coming to the sanctuary, the visitors would get a different atmosphere and local people would be benefitted too. He said Tharu people should introduce their folk art and dance to the visiting tourists.
The meeting was also attended by Field director (FD) of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (DTR) Sanjay Pathak, and Divisional forest officer (DFO), KWS, Akash Deep Badhawan.
The FD said the department was taking initiatives to diversify the livelihood of the people living near the sanctuary. An organization named ‘Bakri Chhap’, which specialized in branding of rural products, was engaged to promote local products of Tharu people.
The Divisional forest officer (DFO) said an organization called Nature Environment Wildlife Society (NEWS) was engaged to reduce elephant-human conflict in the area, since the area had been declared Terai Elephant Reserve ((TER).
Tags: Eco-tourism, Uttar Pradesh
Monday, January 23, 2023
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