Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 12: A delegation headed by Shri Kailakh Jyotish Avim Vedic Sansthan Trust (SKJAVST) president Mahant Rohit Shastri met with Chief Secretary (CS) Dr Arun Kumar Mehta at his office and submitted a memorandum, urging him to show Bawa Kailakh Dev Temple and other temples of Jammu on tourist map of J&K.
Mahant Rohit Shastri told the Chief Secretary said that Jammu is the City of Temples and every year so many tourist and visitors visit the holy shrine of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi and there after they straightaway go to Kashmir for enjoying natural beauty of the Kashmir and left the Union Territory.
He further said that the holy shrine of Vaishno Devi and various other tourist spots of Kashmir are shown on the map of tourism of the Union Territory, whereas other places of Jammu having natural beauty and holy shrines are not shown on the tourist map of Jammu and Kashmir.
He urged the Chief Secretary to consider showing Shri Bawa Kailakh Dev, Shri Parshuram Temple Akhnoor, Showa Mata Temple (Ranjan Jandial) and other temple’s of Jammu on the tourist map of the J&K Government. He further stressed that if these places are shown on the tourist map of J&K, various pilgrims will visit these important historical shrines and temples, thereby enhancing tourism activities and creating employment for the unemployed youth of the concerned areas.
“It shall also support the development of the shrines and temples and these places. These places are already linked with the roads and have a good connectivity. The only requirement is to propagate and introduce these places to the pilgrims, by placing these spots on tourist map,” Shastri said, adding, it shall rejuvenate the old extinct history of these temples and also re-establish the importance of these extinct temples.
On the occasion, Parbodh Sharma (general secretary of the Trust) was also present.
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