Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 16: Jammu Tourism Action Committee (JTAC), an amalgam of various trade organizations of Jammu City, has severely condemned the recommendation by Jammu Development Authority (JDA) to gradually shift the General Bus Stand Jammu from its present site at BC Road and its diversification at four different places, away from the old city.
A meeting of JTAC held here today under the chairmanship of its convener, Inderjeet Khajuria, termed the recommendations of JDA as contradictory to the assurances give by the authorities at the highest level of Chief Minister.
“The Chief Minister while laying the foundation stone of Jammu Cable Car Project had announced that the present Bus Stand will continue as terminal point for the buses of all routes. Similarly, the Deputy Chief Minister, Tara Chand, had publically announced at a function in the Bus Stand premises that the present Bus Stand will operate as terminal point of buses of all routes including inter State buses”, the meeting said and condemned the latest JDA report sent to J&K High Court in which JDA has recommended that the present Bus Stand should be made as inter-city Bus Stand, while inter State buses should operate from the newly set up Bus Stand at Narwal.
JDA in its report to High Court has said that inter State bus terminal at Transport Nagar and bus terminal for RS Pura buses near old RTO office, Ware House, are operational, while it described the present Bus Stand as intercity bus terminal.
At a time when the traders of Jammu City and stakeholders in Jammu tourism are fighting for making Jammu City and its surroundings as independent tourist destination and the authorities at the highest level have assured the same, the report by JDA is total negation of the same, the speakers said.
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