The Government of Nagaland on March 14, 2024, notified the Nagaland Tourism Policy, 2024. In order to implement programmes of the infrastructural development, strengthening promotion and marketing efforts and generating tourism awareness to the general public, and promote Nagaland as sustainable, community-centered tourism, preservation of diverse culture and its natural …
Mines situated within this buffer zone should be closed in a phased manner, says Parrikar Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Monday the State government will not allow any new mining leases up to 2 km of wildlife sanctuaries and national parks. The Chief Minister told presspersons on the sidelines …
Asia’s biggest man-made 'Jungle Safari' will come up in a sprawling 200 acres of land in Chhattisgarh ‘Naya Raipur’ the high-tech city that will replace Raipur as state’s capital from November 1. Chief Minister Raman Singh on Friday performed laid the foundation stone for the project to be implemented in …
The Deputy Director of Parambikulam Tiger Reserve K. Vijayanandan in a statement here on Friday has said that a joint perambulation of officials of Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu and Parambikulam Tiger Reserve in Kerala was held on Thursday to discuss various inter state protection issues. During the joint …
A meeting of the officials of the four tiger reserves – Parambikulam in Kerala and Anamalai, Muthumalai and Kalakkadu in Tamil Nadu – have decided to reopen them for tourism next week after implementing the new guidelines issued by the Supreme Court on using 20 per cent of the area …
The famous Ranthambore and Sariska national parks in Rajasthan were thrown open to tourists on October 17, a day after the Supreme Court lifted the interim ban on tourist activities in the core areas of tiger reserve forests in the country, following the notification of revised comprehensive guidelines for tourism …
Strictly adhere to National Tourism Conservation Authority guidelines, says court The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted the ban on tourist activities in core areas of tiger reserve forests. This follows Additional Solicitor-General Indira Jaising’s submission that on October 15 the government notified the revised guidelines for the 41 tiger reserves …
National Tourism Conservation Authority (NTCA) notified these guidelines on 15 Oct 2012, under the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 for tourism in and around tiger reserves. These guidelines may be called the National Tiger Conservation Authority (Normative Standards for Tourism activities and Project Tiger) Guidelines, 2012. Whereas, the National Tiger …
The Supreme Court today permitted the Centre to notify within a week its fresh guidelines for tiger conservation and regulating tiger tourism. A Bench comprising Justices AK Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar, however, made it clear that the state governments would be free to challenge the new guidelines if they felt …
JAIPUR: As thousands of delegates gather in India for the 11th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Hyderabad, from 8 - 19 October 2012, a new initiative will be unveiled to help countries meet some of their obligations under the legally-binding treaty whilst also …
New Delhi: The government on Thursday withdrew the plan to set up a petrochemicals hub in Haldia, in partnership with West Bengal, after the state decided to use the land to set up a power plant, an industrial park and an eco-tourism park on Nayachar Island. Finance minister P Chidambaram …
Imphal, Sept. 27: The Okram Ibobi Singh government is preparing a masterplan to turn Manipur into a tourist hub by developing tourism infrastructure in the state. But the government is apprehensive that the prevailing law and order might be a hindrance in attracting tourists in large numbers. Ibobi Singh asked …
AHMEDABAD: Encouraged by the increasing number of tourists to Gujarat, the state government now plans to focus on the state's 1,600 km coastline in order to promote maritime, coastal and eco tourism. State tourism and health minister Jay Narayan Vyas spoke about tourism potential of these initiatives at the International …
The Union government on Wednesday pleaded in the Supreme Court for a partial lifting of the ban on tourist activities in core areas of tiger reserve forests. It sought permission to have 20 per cent of the area under tourism. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), Ministry of Environment and …
JAIPUR: Officials, wildlife enthusiasts and conservationists are waiting with bated breath for Thursday's Supreme Court verdict on tourism in the core of areas of wildlife sanctuaries. With just three days to go for the Ranthambore and Sariska national parks to re-open (October 1), this would chart the way for the …
The Centre on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to allow regulated, low-impact tourist activities in up to 20 per cent of the core/critical tiger habitat in the country as part of the exercise to promote tourism. In the fresh guidelines formulated for states following the top court’s interim ban imposed …
Year-on-year increases in the number of new micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) set up in Uttarakhand over the last four years show that the hill industrial policy is slowly yielding results in the state. The policy came into effect in 2008 to encourage the growth of MSMEs. The government …
Tourism is a success in Kerala as it revolves around the region’s roots — its art forms, cuisine, ethnic products, martial art forms etc., Amitabh Kant, managing director and CEO of Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, who was formerly secretary of Kerala Tourism, said. At a session on tourism at the Emerging …
New Delhi: Another panel has been set up by the ministry of environment and forests to decide eco-tourism guidelines in core areas and peripheral buffer zones of tiger reserves, and submit a report within 10 days. The panel’s creation comes on the back of ministry’s commitment to the Supreme Court …
Tourism must be seen in the context of the rights of all stakeholders. More and reliable data is needed to understand whether tourism is harmful to tigers or that people living in the forests have caused the decline in the tigers' population. The more central issue of the implementation of …
New Delhi: The official version of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s speech at the National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) on Wednesday changed thrice in the space of one day. In a highly unusual sequence of events, the version of Singh’s speech released by the PMO on its website on Wednesday was …
