Varanasi: With its centuries-old cultural heritage being accepted across the world, Kashi has joined the race to become the tourism and cultural capital of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (Shanghai Cooperation Organization,
The possibilities in this regard have increased with the demand for a dossier of cultural and tourist places of Kashi by the Ministry of External Affairs (MoEA). According to the SCO tradition, a city in the country presiding among the member states for the development of tourism potential, tourism infrastructure and smart tourism is declared as its tourism and culture capital.
“Through a letter, MoEA has sought a dossier on the sites of tourism and cultural importance of Kashi. In view of this, Varanasi Smart City Limited Divisional commissioner Deepak Agarwal while talking to TOI on Saturday said that nodal agency has been formed to collect the details of these places from all the concerned departments and prepare a dossier. “This dossier will be prepared by VSCL by February 5 and will be sent to the state government on February 10 for forwarding it to MoEA,” he said. Country.
tourism officer Kirtiman Srivastava “In addition to all necessary information, the dossier will also include a logo of the city and each site and activity in a template form,” it said.
Aggarwal said that all the information including traditional and annual cultural activities Ramlila, Bharat Milap, Dev Deepawali, art and music festivals, archaeological sites, food dishes and festivals, literature festivals, handlooms and handicrafts that represent the culture of the city will be listed in a calendar form. It will also include all the important sites of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and their details.
“How the visitor experience has grown in recent years will also be included in this dossier,” Srivastava said, adding that all the departments concerned will provide necessary information to VSCL for preparation of the dossier.
The official said the dossier was supposed to be finalized by February 1, but due to one reason or the other, the date of its compilation was revised to February 5.
Aggarwal said that he had also called a meeting of officials of Tourism, Culture, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), Archaeological Survey of India, Handloom and Industry and VSCL on Friday evening and for this tasks were assigned to each department. Were. To provide necessary information to the Nodal Agency for compiling the inputs for finalization of the dossier by 5th February.
The SCO came into existence in 2001 for the Political, Economic and Security Alliance, and was joined by India in 2017. Its permanent members are China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan. Many other countries are engaged as observers or partners.
In order to explore the huge tourism potential of the cities and regions, and to promote the rich cultural and historical heritage of the SCO people and member states, the organization organizes an annual SCO tradition to declare a city in the country that presides over the SCO. adopted the idea. SCO as the tourism and culture capital.
The possibilities in this regard have increased with the demand for a dossier of cultural and tourist places of Kashi by the Ministry of External Affairs (MoEA). According to the SCO tradition, a city in the country presiding among the member states for the development of tourism potential, tourism infrastructure and smart tourism is declared as its tourism and culture capital.
“Through a letter, MoEA has sought a dossier on the sites of tourism and cultural importance of Kashi. In view of this, Varanasi Smart City Limited Divisional commissioner Deepak Agarwal while talking to TOI on Saturday said that nodal agency has been formed to collect the details of these places from all the concerned departments and prepare a dossier. “This dossier will be prepared by VSCL by February 5 and will be sent to the state government on February 10 for forwarding it to MoEA,” he said. Country.
tourism officer Kirtiman Srivastava “In addition to all necessary information, the dossier will also include a logo of the city and each site and activity in a template form,” it said.
Aggarwal said that all the information including traditional and annual cultural activities Ramlila, Bharat Milap, Dev Deepawali, art and music festivals, archaeological sites, food dishes and festivals, literature festivals, handlooms and handicrafts that represent the culture of the city will be listed in a calendar form. It will also include all the important sites of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and their details.
“How the visitor experience has grown in recent years will also be included in this dossier,” Srivastava said, adding that all the departments concerned will provide necessary information to VSCL for preparation of the dossier.
The official said the dossier was supposed to be finalized by February 1, but due to one reason or the other, the date of its compilation was revised to February 5.
Aggarwal said that he had also called a meeting of officials of Tourism, Culture, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), Archaeological Survey of India, Handloom and Industry and VSCL on Friday evening and for this tasks were assigned to each department. Were. To provide necessary information to the Nodal Agency for compiling the inputs for finalization of the dossier by 5th February.
The SCO came into existence in 2001 for the Political, Economic and Security Alliance, and was joined by India in 2017. Its permanent members are China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan. Many other countries are engaged as observers or partners.
In order to explore the huge tourism potential of the cities and regions, and to promote the rich cultural and historical heritage of the SCO people and member states, the organization organizes an annual SCO tradition to declare a city in the country that presides over the SCO. adopted the idea. SCO as the tourism and culture capital.
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