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The tourism ecosystem indispensable beryllium strengthened with the enactment of the Central authorities funds nether assorted schemes successful SPSR Nellore district, Lanka Dinakar, president of Twenty-Point Programme (Viksit Bharat – Swarna Andhra Pradesh) Implementation Committee, said astatine a reappraisal gathering with the territory Tourism Department officials present connected Tuesday (November 25, 2025).
The gathering focussed connected tourism improvement arsenic the stepping chromatic for economical maturation and employment procreation successful the district. He asked the officials to marque usage of the funds being released nether the schemes – Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation Drive (PRASAD), Swadesh Darshan 2.0 and SASCI strategy (Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment).
The PRASAD strategy aims to make and rejuvenate pilgrimage and spiritual sites crossed the country, portion Swadesh Darshan 2.0. is simply a revamped strategy to make sustainable tourism, covering tourism and allied infrastructure, and the SASCI strategy is to make iconic tourer destinations into global-scale attractions, providing funds for infrastructure, branding, and marketing.
Speaking to The Hindu, Mr. Dinakar said, “The tourism assemblage successful Nellore territory has immense imaginable to make employment for the section youth. The territory possesses affluent natural, cultural, and spiritual tourism assets which, if decently developed, volition importantly boost the section economy.
He further said, “To unlock the employment imaginable inherent successful the tourism sector, the officials indispensable connection high-quality and reliable infrastructure astatine tourer spots, beforehand the district’s taste and practice assets done wide-reaching publicity and consciousness campaigns, and pull maximum tourer footfalls by improving access, amenities, safety, and work delivery.”
“Although Mypadu Beach has beardown imaginable arsenic a coastal tourism hub, the visitors proceed to look hardships owed to mediocre infrastructure and inadequate attraction of existing facilities,” the Twenty-Point Programme president said, instructing the Tourism Department officials to make the coastline successful the territory with modern amenities to alteration it into a premier tourer destination.
The officials person prepared proposals worthy ₹77 lakh for modernisation of existent facilities astatine Mypadu Beach. They person prepared Detailed Project Report (DPR) proposals for large tourism improvement of Pinakini Satyagraha Gandhi Ashram astatine Pallipadu, with ₹26.04 crore and Udayagiri Fort and Sri Narasimha Swamy Temple practice and infrastructure improvement with ₹36.50 crore.
Similarly, the proposals were made for the improvement of Sri Ranganayakula Temple successful Udayagiri with ₹13.25 crore, Sri Krishna Temple with ₹2.45 crore, Kurugonda–Kanigiri Reservoir Tourism Centre astatine Buchchi Reddy Palem with ₹22.23 crore and Penusila Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple successful Penchalakona with ₹20.62 crore.
