Five adventure camping sites in NCR by 2010


By Riti, Section Sports
Posted on Sun Jul 27, 2008 at 10:34:35 PM EST

In next two years, adventure campers won't have to travel all the way to Manali or Rishikesh with the Haryana Tourism setting up five camping sites around the Capital by 2010. According to the plan, four of them will be located in the NCR cities of Haryana - Surajkund, Dharuhera, Hodal and Damdama.

Haryana tourism minister Kiran Choudhry said that the Central tourism ministry has already issued guidelines for setting up of camping sites, especially in view of the forthcoming Commonwealth Games and to augment accommodation with requisite quality and standards. Haryana government was working in close coordination with the Centre and adventure tour operators association to finalize the camping sites. The work was being taken up at camping sites at Surajkund, Hodal, Dharuhera and Morni to attract more tourists.

She said that the Central government has also been approached to provide funds for Damdama camping site, which had already been used as camping sites over the years. This would provide basic infrastructure around camping site including connectivity, electricity, public toilets, tourist reception facilities and parking grounds. The minister added that state government's tourism policy has provision for short-term and long-term leasing policy to private players and accordingly some of camping sites would be leased in public private partnership (PPP) to provide basic facilities to tourists.

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"We are looking at getting a huge number of adventure campers during Games when the entire NCR will witness huge tourist inflow. Providing unique facility to tourists would be big business since even the sportspersons coming from different countries would like to take a break from Delhi. But in case they don't want to cover long distance, these camps would be ideal for them," said a senior tourism department official. She added that this initiative would help the tourist destinations such as Surajkund and Damdama regain their vigour. Haryana tourism has been organizing adventure activities for the last six-seven years such as para-sailing at Civil Aviation Club, Pinjore, Karnal and Narnaul, besides camping at Tikkar Taal near Morni hills in Panchkula. Similarly, river rafting, canoeing and kayaking were also arranged in Yamuna between the Ponta Sahib to Hanthikund and Kalesar in Yamunanagar district.

In another move to boost tourism activity in Surajkund, the minister inaugurated Rajhans Convention Centre, only 8 km away from south Delhi.

Source:The Times Of India July28th,2008.

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