Hundreds of acres of vacant land near 3,255 dams in Maharashtra, owned via the water resources branch, will now be used for tourism and the improvement of recreational facilities.
The coverage, which became clear in a Tuesday country cabinet meeting, also let’s privatize guest houses, resthouses, and bungalows near dams and reservoirs for tourism functions through a public-personal partnership (PPP) version. This is a first-of-its-type coverage, as improvement has become restricted in those areas. The water assets department has 138 huge dams, 255 medium, and a pair of 862 minor barriers, and each of them has open plots measuring 5 to four hundred acres. According to officers, those plots will now be used for water sports, cruising, windsurfing, entertainment, and subject matter parks.
“We have decided to comply with segments 18 and 19 and Irrigation Development Corporation Acts, 1997 (all five irrigation corporations of the kingdom have their acts) that allow efforts to promote tourism and water sports. Nobody has taken the initiative in the past 22 years. We will observe the provisions,” said IS Chahal, foremost secretary of the water assets branch.
The authorities will demarcate confined controlled regions wherein tourism centers may be evolved, with an eye fixed on safety near dams and reservoirs. “The government has loads of acres of land reserved close to most important dams for future enlargement of the assignment, which will now be used to sell tourism sports,” Chahal said. “Across the world, dams are opened for tourism purposes. A living proof is the Hoover Dam in the US. We will call for bids. We plan to allow bidders to take over the land, develop it, earn, and proportion the sales with us.”
In August 2018, the state government formed a six-member committee headed by the executive director of the Tapi Irrigation Development Corporation and the leader engineers of all five irrigation development corporations to prepare a document on the difficulty. “The committee submitted a positive file in December 2018, following which the authorities have determined to proceed with the plan,” stated a senior reliable.
Chahal stated they had 147 resthouses near dams and reservoirs, which could not be maintained due to the loss of renovation offers. The coverage will cope with the maintenance of those systems and generate employment for locals. The nation will even observe the tourism coverage of states such as Rajasthan and Kerala to put together its gentle report.
