Mysore, Sept. 6 (RK&KMC)- A meeting of Mysore Division Tourism Department comprising eight districts was chaired by Tourism Minister G. Janardhana Reddy at the Regional Commissioner's Office in city today.
At the meeting attended by about 50 officers including the Deputy Commissioners, Tourism Deputy Directors and other top officials of the districts, Reddy reviewed the department's progress and also directed them to chalk out programmes to be taken up for new projects, for which the Chief Minister had assured a grant of Rs. 500 crore to the department.
"Rs. 140 crore will be earmarked for tourism development in Mysore division," he said.
"This year's budget allocation of Rs. 240 crore is the highest for Tourism development in the State so far," he said and exhorted the officials to ensure proper utilisation of funds.
Tourism Department Principal Secretary Jyothi Ramalingam, speaking on the occasion, said that out of the four divisions in State, the progress review meeting of Mysore division has been taken up on priority basis. A meeting of Belgaum division will be held tomorrow and meetings of the remaining two divisions will be held by the end of this month, he said.
Regional Commissioner M.V. Jayanthi, Addl. Regional Commissioners Chikkathammaiah and Manjunath Naik, DC Harsha Gupta, Addl. DC Dr. C.G. Betsurmath, MCC Commissioner K.S. Raikar, Tourism Director Vishwanath Reddy, Archaeology Department Director Dr. R. Gopal, Kodagu DC Ashwatha Narayanago...more
