{"id":2893,"date":"2010-04-13T15:09:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T12:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2010-04-13T15:10:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T12:10:36","slug":"indian-tourism-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/indian-tourism-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Tourism ministry plans 10,000 highway facilities by 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/india-tourism-travel-vacation-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2894\" title=\"Indian Tourism ministry plans 10,000 highway facilities by 2015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/india-tourism-travel-vacation-01-340x225.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Tourism ministry plans 10,000 highway facilities by 2015\" width=\"340\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/india-tourism-travel-vacation-01-340x225.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/india-tourism-travel-vacation-01.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>The Indian tourism ministry aims at starting 10,000 wayside facilities along the country&#8217;s vast highways network within the next five years to provide basic amenities such as clean food and restrooms to travellers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;These facilities, offering rest rooms, toilets and food outlets, will come up every 40 km on state highways and every 30 km on hill roads,&#8217; Tourism Secretary Sujit Banjerjee said on the margins of a workshop on &#8216;Great Indian Travel Bazaar&#8217; here.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, the tourism ministry is coordinating with the road transport ministry, which has been in talks with the state-run Indian Tourism Development Corp (ITDC) for setting up such facilities and restaurants on national highways.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Whether ITDC sets it up or oil companies set up such facilities at their gas stations, we just aim at 10,000 wayside facilities within the next five years,&#8217; Banjerjee told.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry is promoting the public-private-partnership in setting up such facilities, the secretary said, adding that it will also provide funds for upgrading the facilities already existing.<\/p>\n<p>At the workshop, federal Tourism Minister Kumari Selja said foreign as well as domestic tourists needed wayside facilities and that the ministry was working for speedy set up of such facilities.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian tourism ministry aims at starting 10,000 wayside facilities along the country&#8217;s vast highways network within the next five years to provide basic amenities such as clean food and restrooms to travellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sectoral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}