With proposals like digital museum, aerial safari, UT admn set to present comprehensive tourism plan

The presentation will also outline funding requirements for major projects identified under the Centre’s Swadesh Darshan 2.0 scheme. Following recommendations by a project development and management consultant (PDMC), the Chandigarh Administration has planned various tourist-centric activities — from an aerial safari at Rock Garden to a virtual tour of Capitol Complex — under the scheme to give impetus to tourism in the UT.

Under the marketing and digitalisation component of Swadesh Darshan 2.0, theme-based lighting and promotion of museums will be done in the city. The funds for the scheme will be provided by the Union Ministry of Tourism.

The administration will also showcase its landscapes, including Sarangpur, to secure the central government’s assistance for future tourism projects.

On an average, as many as 30,000 international and 1.2 million domestic tourists visit Chandigarh every year.

In the master plan for the Capitol Complex, apart from a virtual tour of Capitol Complex using AR/VR technologies, human scale model of the cafeteria at first floor and battery-operated cars for specially-abled and elderly visitors have been proposed.

At Rock Garden, a proposal for improvement of entry and ticket window, re-designing or re-location of souvenir shop, oxidation pond, rock museum, aerial safari, theme-based rock café, and addition of succulent garden have been suggested.