Mubarak Mandi ropeway project

Work on  45 cr Mubarak Mandi ropeway project to start by June next 

The work on the prestigious ` 45 cr Mubarak Mandi palace to Mahamaya Park Shahbad Bagh-e-Bahu Ropeway Project would be started by June next year.

The proposed Ropeway project aimed at to add another tourist attraction to the City of Temples would have 37 cabin lines from historical Mubarak Mandi palace to Mahamaya Park Shahbad Bagh-e-Bahu. The ropeway would have two sections across the river Tawi, one from Mubarak Mandi, Peerkho to Mohmaya Park and another from Mohmaya Park to Shahbad. Each cabin would have six seats with scientific ventilation facilities.

This was disclosed at a high level meeting chaired by the Minister for Tourism and Culture, Nawang Rigzin Jora, convened to review the progress made in completing the paper work for initiating the project.

The meeting discussed and sorted out several issues confronting the early execution of the project.

It was informed that Detailed Project Report (DPR) for ropeway has been formulated with the consultancy of RITES. The meeting decided to go for tendering the project in January 2012 while stressing for the expedition of the procedure for environment, forest and wildlife clearance.

Speaking at the meeting, Mr Jora said that the Government was keen to create more tourism attraction spots in Jammu so that pilgrim and other tourists visiting Mata Vaishno Devi and other holy shrines besides scenic spots of the region would extend their holidays in the city, adding the dream of laying of Mubarak Mandi to Shahbad Bahufort ropeway would be realised at any cost.

The Minister directed the concerned authorities to expedite completion of all codal formalities of the project so that the work would be started at the earliest. He instructed that the project should be completed within one year time.

On the occasion, the Managing Director Cable Car Corporation gave a power point presentation on the proposed ropeway project.

Commissioner Secretary Tourism and Culture, Atul Dulo, Commissioner Secretary Forest, Shantmanu, Commissioner Secretary Revenue, Isfindyar Khan, Divisional Commissioner Jammu, Pawan Kotwal, Chairman Pollution Control Board, Lal Chand, Director Tourism Jammu, R.S. Mehta, Vice Chairman JDA, Vinod Sharma, Managing Director Cable Car Corporation, Talat Parvez, Regional Wildlife Warden, HoD Environment Jammu University and Superintending Engineer PDD Jammu, besides other senior officers of Planning and Tourism Department attended the meeting.