Varanasi: The second luxurious cruise boat will start running on the Ganga in Kashi from January 30. However, the locals as well as tourists will have to wait for a few weeks to avail rides on it.
As a part of the tourism department’s Rs 10.71 crore project, a new cruise boat is reaching here. This two-tier cruise boat will have boarding a facility for 90 people, said divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal.
After leaving the Goa shipyard in November to reach Varanasi via Kanyakumari, Kolkata and Haldia, Agrawal said the cruise boat had stayed too long in salted waters due to which many maintenance works like repainting and interior are required to be done. For these works, it will stay at Inland Waterway Authority of India (IWAI) port in Ramnagar, he added.