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India’s Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Culture and MoS Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Dr. Mahesh Sharma, along with Shri K.J Alphons, Minister of State (Independent Charge) Tourism, inaugurated the Paryatan Parv celebrations today at Humayun’s Tomb in New Delhi, India.
Speaking on the occasion, the chief guest, Dr. Mahesh Sharma stressed on the close linkage of culture and tourism in the country and how everyone needed to work on making India’s rich cultural heritage as tourism attractions.
Shri. K.J. Alphons in his address highlighted the need to drastically improve tourist arrivals in the country. He also said that tourism is needed for 2 reasons, namely providing employment to the people and to become an engine of growth.
08 February 2021
Work on the Rs5,000 crore Central Vista project started with the Bhoomi Poojan ceremony of the Central Vista Avenue performed by Hardeep S Puri, minister of state for housing and urban affairs, at India Gate on Thursday.
With this ceremony, the work has started for the development/ redevelopment of Central Vista Avenue starting from North and South Block to India Gate, that includes the Rajpath, its adjoining lawns and canals, rows of tree, Vijay Chowk and the India Gate plaza over a 3 km-long stretch.
This was originally designed to be a grand processional pathway to the Viceroy’s House during the British Raj. It was appropriated by the people of India and their government after Independence.