Old Jammu to be developed as ‘Heritage City’: Nirmal Singh

Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Nirmal Singh today said the government has targeted to develop old areas of Jammu (old city) as heritage city through a string of projects initiated for traffic decongestion, sanitation and cleanliness.
He was speaking at a function organized in connection with the disbursement of old age and other pension cheques to beneficiaries of Jammu East areas.

Dr Singh said numerous upcoming and completed multi-storey parking projects around historical old city are path-breaking steps towards restoring its pristine glory.
He said these projects including upcoming ambitious general bus stand multi-facility centre, already completed project at City Chowk and a parking project proposed each at Panjtirthi and on Circular Road aim at to give new look to heritage bazaars like Kanak Mandi, Purani Mandi, Raghunath Bazaar and other adjoining areas.
Deputy Chief Minister said the target is to divert over one crore visitors coming every year to pay obeisance at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine to the Jammu City.

Projects like Tawi River Development Front, development of heritage sites including Mubarak Mandi Royal Complex, construction of rope way project across River Tawi up to Mahamaya Temple provide all ingredients for projection of Jammu on global level, he said.
He said groundwork for starting the Tawi River Front Development Project is in full swing. “All technical and safety and flood protection issues are being included in the Detailed Project Report (DPR) to ensure that it may not face the fate of many past projects which have been left halfway” he informed.
He said the geological survey has already been completed and the work on the project would be started soon after formulation of the DPR and completing other ground works.

On the occasion, Dr Singh gave away pension and other assistance cheques to over 170 beneficiaries hailing from different parts of old city.

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