Lok Sabha Debates
Need To Allocate Funds For Development Of Tourism In Howrah District, West ... on 7 December, 2005
> Title : Need to allocate funds for development of tourism in Howrah district, West Bengal.
SHRI HANNAN MOLLAH (ULUBERIA): My district Howrah is one of the important districts with two international tourism centres, viz., Belur Math and Indian Botanical Garden. Besides two unique bridges over the Ganges, Rabindra Setu and Vidyasagar Setu, are engineering master pieces and attract tourists. Besides, we intend to develop the residence of great literary legent Sarat Chandra in my constituency, into a major tourist attraction by developing a theme park based on the stories of the Great Novelist. The most beautiful tourist spots at Gadiara, on the site of confluence of the rivers Hooghly and Damodar and Deer Park at Garchumuk may be improved further. A tourist circuit may be formed connecting all those spots and can be developed as tourist destination of national and international importance.
But to complete the project call “joy at your doorstep’ the Howrah Zilla Parishad had submitted through West Bengal Government proposal to the Government of India to make survey and help to prepare a modern project for implementation by the Central Government as their own meagre fund cannot implement it.
I would urge upon the Government and specially Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, to help us to complete the project.