Hussainiwala to be major tourist spot

From The Tribune

Hussainiwala, March 19

To make Hussainiwala village a major tourism destination, both the Centre and Punjab government have taken up a number of projects.
While the Punjab Tourism and Heritage Development Corporation hasbeen carrying out the preservation of the local rest-house and railway station, set up during the Raj, the Union Home Ministry has decided to set up a big viewers’ gallery with an artistic look at a cost of Rs 14 crores. Earlier, the cost of viewers' gallery with the capacity of 3000 persons was to be built at a cost of Rs. 6.22 crores. The foundation stone for this gallery was laid by Home Minister P. Chidambaram in October last year. "Now, the cost of viewers' gallery will be around Rs 14 crores as Home Ministry wants it to be big and of international standard. The CPWD, which was supposed to construct it, has prepared fresh designs,” disclosed DC KK Yadav.

He said that Punjab Tourism and Heritage Development Corporation had been carrying out the renovation of rest house and railway station here at the cost of lacs of ruppes, which had been sanctioned by Punjab government already. Parminder Singh, secretary, PPCC claimed that on the insistence of the Congress leadership, Centre had given its nod to another project to make Hussainiwala JCP and national martyrs' memorial accessible to tourists easily. He said the Centre has given its nod for four-laning of a 40-km road from Talwandi Bhai to Hussainiwala, which was already connected with a four-lane road with Kasur district in Pakistan.
Meanwhile, Karan Singh Dhaliwal, secretary, Border Area Sangarash Committee, Punjab, demanded that the BSF must allow farmers, whose lands were across the barbed wire fencing, more time to till for agriculture purpose. He said that though Chidambaram had ordered BSF to do the needful in October 2010, nothing had been done. — TNS
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