Thursday, 14 August 2014
Bihar to ponder over formation of tourism
The Bihar government would explore the possibility of forming a 'tourism
cabinet' on the lines of the one existing for Agriculture to spur the tourism industry - a
potential revenue earner.
"We will take forward the idea of constituting a tourism cabinet combining
different related departments like the one for agriculture to boost tourism potential of the
state," Principal Secretary Tourism Deepak Prasad said at a workshop. In a pioneering
initiative, Bihar formed an Agriculture cabinet in 2011 combining 17 departments for
comprehensive growth of farm sector.
culture having many sites of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam and
Sikhism, Prasad said there was a need to have more "story tellers" to popularise the sites.
He said efforts would be made to tap famous personalities from the state like Bollywood
actor-turned politician Shatrughan Sinha, his actor-daughter Sonakshi Sinha and more
recently Shreya Singh who won silver medal in shooting in Commonwealth Games in the
role of 'story tellers' like Gujarat had Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan. more news >>
