Agro-Tourism: A new Dimension for a country
Development with Govt boosting up
To day time calls for alternative Tourism because
of the potential of our village they have. Our country & rural villages
have so many potential things to cater the needs of the tourism . Our rural
people , its culture , languages, living style, tradition, arts, township,
handicrafts , scene lands of nature can attract the tourists irrespective of
its taste , boundary, perceptions & attitudes . Our great strength is that almost
74% of the population of India resides in its seven lakh beautiful villages.
Agro tourism will definitely emerged as an significant
instrument for sustainable human development including employment generation,
environmental greenness and development of far remote areas and poverty
eradication and women empowerment and promoting social integration and
international exposer. The government should very much active in promote rural
tourism and Agro Tourism to ensure sustainable economic development as well as positive
and dynamic social change.
The Government has realized rightly that our rural
India can offer a lot to the rest of World. The tenth five-year plan Tourism has
been notified as one of the major sources for generating employment, eco
friendly income source and promoting sustainable livelihoods with green
initiative. The government has decided to develop required infrastructure for
facilitating rural tourism. The union ministry of Tourism in collaboration with
UNDP has launched the Endogenous and attractive Tourism project in the year
2004, concurrent to the existing rural tourism scheme of the government of India.
UNDP will help for capacity building of rural youth, involvement of NGOs, local
communities and artisans forge strong community with PPP mode i.e. Private and Public
sector Partnerships. Till now Ministry of
Tourism Government of India, with the facilitate of State tourism department
has identified 31 villages across the country as tourist sites like Raghurajpur
in Odisha and providing funding for financial assistance for each project and
progress more. Also emphasising developing logistic facilities and starting
community participation through self-help groups (SHG) and women entrepreneurs.