A broken plan in the name of tourism development

There is no budget in other districts. Even in Dolpa, instead of the physical development of tourism promotion, various shrines, small monasteries and monasteries were built. In the name of tourism infrastructure development in Karnali, every financial year is spent on the construction of Kulddeuta's monastery.

Karnali state government has spent the budget in the name of tourism development in dozens of Kulddeuta's temples including Dahremast fame infrastructure, Bhaisekhor, Mashta temple, Kalika temple, Malika Durga temple, Mashta temple in most districts of Karnali.

Outgoing Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment Minister Krishna Kumar BC said that most of the files in the ministry come from the demand for the construction of the monastery and the construction of the tourist route. The outgoing minister BC, who said that the construction of Kulddeuta's monastery alone will not develop tourism, has allocated more budget than other districts in the name of Kulddeuta and other deities in home district Dailekh . He has allocated nearly 5 crore rupees in schemes ranging from 5 lakh to 1 crore in Dailekh alone.

Tourism Secretary Rajendra Kumar Basukala said that funds have been allocated for the infrastructure construction plan for tourism development to be spent through the Division Forest Office. According to him, the former minister BC has made a distribution-oriented plan in the name of infrastructure construction through 50-piece plan in the home district Dailekh from the place of the deity to the small temples in the village . "It is not possible to believe that tourism will develop and tourists will come with an activist-oriented budget like Kanika Chhare's," said Tirthan Narayan Shrestha, former ward president of Dailekh Narayan Municipality-3.

Apart from a few plans, the government has planned a major destination in all the districts of the province without spending any money. Because of this, Tej Chand, Secretary of Mashta Mandir Infrastructure Development Committee located in Bhairavi-2 of Dailekh, said that even if the annual budget is spent, there is no progress. According to him, Narayan municipality-4 Bhaisekhor Mast temple infrastructure construction, Naumule-3 Bhairamthan temple infrastructure development, Dullu municipality-13 Tiadi temple infrastructure development, Athbis municipality-1 Adhikari temple to Kukurethum Bhai temple footpath construction, Narayan municipality-1 Jeevan Jyoti in Dailekh market. Construction of church infrastructure, construction of Buddhist Vihara infrastructure in Dungeshwar-1 Chupra, including dozens of total Deutas, Viharas and Churches has been allocated nearly 3 crores .

The ministry has also planned 50 tourism development projects in Birendranagar, the capital of Karnali province. Everywhere from Kul Deuta to Gumba, the budget has been allocated for infrastructure construction . Similarly, about 2 crores of rupees have been allocated as a budget for many monasteries including the construction of Buddhist monastery infrastructure in Barahtal-5, construction of infrastructure of Birendranagar Municipality-2, Thauri Falate Surkhet Mastadevi infrastructure construction in Simta-1, etc. Similarly, half of the 13 schemes in Kalikot have been earmarked for infrastructure construction of small temples. The amount of which is nearly 50 lakh rupees . In Jajarkot, there are 17 plans for the place of Kulddevatai. In which the Mashta Temple in Junichade-2 to Malika Temple in Chedagad Municipality-12 has been planned.

17 tourist areas have been planned in Salyan. Local leader Vishnulal Wudha said that the state government has 6 plans in Dolpa. The Ministry of Tourism has allocated funds for 28 schemes in Jumla, and 1 million budget has been allocated to Kuldewata. But this year only Rs 10 lakh has been allocated to Chandannath Temple, the main tourist pilgrimage site of Karnali. "The same amount of budget as Chandannath has been invested in other normal temples as infrastructure and footpaths," said Jumla leader Lakshmi Prasad Devkota, "which has no effect on tourism development". With the access and power of the leader, millions of money has been poured into the common temple, what effect will this have on tourism development?'' Whatever he said, installation of the statue of Nagaraj, the promoter of the Khas state in Jumla, and Rs. .

16 plans have been put in place for the development of tourist areas in Mugu. Apart from Gumwa and some temples, the state government has allocated a large amount of money for the construction of homestays, footpaths and Rara tourist infrastructure. There is a plan to build the infrastructure of 12 tourist areas in Rukum West. In which there is no budget for temples, monasteries, and churches of Kul Deuta like in other districts in Rukum West. Here, the budget has been allocated only to the main tourist areas of the district. There are 21 schemes in Humla. Even though there are plans from helipad construction, homestay to infrastructure construction, the budget has been allocated in the name of some expenses. Ram Bahadur Budha, Branch Officer of the Tourism Branch of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forests and Environment said that it is a challenge to work because plans below 1.5 million won't be implemented. Plans for tourism promotion are reconsidered. Plans for solid development will be implemented,' said the official Budha, 'plans that are productive and will help in the sustainable development of Karnali will be selected and the budget will be reviewed.'

As part of the tourism promotion program of Gandaki province, Lakshminarayan temple has been constructed near the district entrance at a cost of 25 lakh rupees. The plan has been modified by Tourism Office Baglung. Apart from that, there is a budget of Rs 2 lakh for Kuduledham, Rs 5 lakh for Panchakot, and Rs 10 lakh for the promotion of Radhamadhav spiritual tourism. As the budget has been allocated for 6 monasteries in the city, all of them are working according to the agreement. In Bareng rural municipality, 3 schemes are all of the monastery.

There is a budget of 5 lakhs for Chhatradev Temple, 10 lakhs for building Sagdi Satyavati Temple infrastructure and another 10 lakhs for the footpath to Shanti Satyavati Temple through Khalta Musundhara . All of them are spent for religious work.

Budget has also been allocated for Ramkot Temple and Ganesh Temple in Kathekhola. All the budgets are 5 lakh rupees . There are 10 plans for footpaths within Baglung city alone. Every place has been named Padmarga by making steps and paths. All are made of sindhi cement . But in most of the places recently, the stairs are almost useless as the road also joins them. 10 footpaths have been constructed in Jaimini, 12 in Kathekhola, 6 in Galkot and 4 in Badigad. Dhorpatan municipality has invested budget in 4 footpaths, Tarakhola 2 and Nisikhola 2.

76 plans have been listed for tourism in Baglung, and among them 50 are for footpaths and 12 for temple construction, said Narayan Prasad Rizal, Senior Assistant of Planning Branch of Tourism Office. "We sent the same type of demand to the ministry," he said, "we are aiming to complete the listed plans on time." Stakeholders complain that the achievement will be low if the small budget is allocated only to the monastery and footpaths. "There is no achievement by investing in small projects, it is difficult to get results by investing a smaller amount from the province than the city," Baglung Municipality Deputy Chief Raju Khadka said, "It is not clear how much the provincial government will spend." He said that only the temples and footpaths have been implemented for the implementation of such schemes. He argues that there should be more publicity for the promotion of tourism in the first stage. He is of the opinion that instead of building temples and cement infrastructure in the name of tourism, it can be benefited if we can spread the word about its importance .

As a different plan, there is a budget to build a Martyr Memorial Park in Tarakhola at a cost of 1.5 million. The target of this budget is to build a statue of 25 martyrs in the village and place it in the park. For that, the rural municipality has also mobilized its own additional budget. Joklal Budha, chairman of the rural municipality, said that although the ministry has invested 10 million in the construction of only one Soledanda Deurali comprehensive tourist infrastructure project in Taman Khola, the rural municipality has made a comprehensive plan with additional funds. Budha said, "We are implementing plans worth more than a million by creating a master plan. Programs like roads, drinking water, flats and lake protection are in the master plan."