SHILLONG, NOV 26: The Meghalaya government has acquired land in Jongsha for a public-private partnership (PPP) project to develop tourism infrastructure, including a 5-star hotel and resort.
Cabinet has approved the procurement of land to develop tourism infrastructure at Umpardong, Umden in Ri Bhoi District.
We have also sanctioned ₹50 crore for constructing the road from Nongpoh to Umden. As the renowned Silk Village, Umden draws many visitors, and there has been… pic.twitter.com/05CsQs2Xch
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“This land has been purchased and government and cabinet has agreed to go ahead and procedures of course has been followed in every sense where expression of interests (EoIs) were floated, people participated, a committee was set up and based on that discussion and negotiations, a final proposal was put infront of the cabinet which was approved today,” Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma told reporters after chairing a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
He said the government is identifying important tourist destinations like Jongsha, Laitlum, Nongjrong and Syntung – for implement tourism projects like large luxury hotels on private-public partnership.
“We have exhausted most of the (government) land.
We strongly felt that there is a need to have a good resort and a 5star hotel in that area and hence there is a need for the government to procure land (at Jongsha),” Sangma added.
Additionally, the government has approved land procurement in Umden, a developing tourism destination, with a Rs 50 crore allocation for road construction from Nongpoh.
“We also have approved the procurement of land in Umden area, which again is an area which is developing as a tourism destination. We have sanctioned Rs 50 crore for the road to be constructed from Umden from Nongpoh and Umden is a silk kind of a village area where a lot of tourists are going and again there has been a huge demand by the local people that government should set up some kind of a tourist area, lodges and stay area and in order to fulfill that we have gone ahead and agreed based on the proposal given by the department for the government to buy land out there,” Sangma stated.
The state cabinet has also approved the service rules of the Meghalaya Sports and Youth Affairs department.
“The department did not have service rules till now and finally we have cleared them today and the service rules are like those of other departments,” Sangma added.
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