Odisha To Invest Rs 70 Cr On Tourism Infrastructure: Panda

07 December, Bhubaneswar

The Odisha government will be investing Rs 70 crore during the current year for expansion of tourism-related infrastructure to create employment opportunities for the youth, Tourism Minister Ashok Chandra Panda today said.

The Tourism sector had huge potential for providing livelihood to the people and the state government is focused on creating direct and indirect employment opportunities in the tourism sector which has huge potential, Mr Panda said while inaugurating Hunar Se Rozgar Tak,(HRST) a government-sponsored two-month-long capacity building course at the School of Hotel Management (SHM) under the SOA University here.

The employability of a person gets enhanced with the acquiring of skill, he said while expressing happiness over the HSRT program being taken up by the University.

The minister said the government was planning to set up a chain of 15 restaurants in the PPP mode on the national highways within the state to be known as Jajabar.

The HSRT is a central government initiative aimed at providing skill based hospitality training to people in the age group of 18 to 28 from the economically weaker strata of the society to make them employable in the tourism and hospitality industry