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Drawing parallels betwixt the 2 regions’ earthy beauties and vulnerabilities, Maya Tissafi, Switzerland’s Ambassador to India, connected Friday (May 29, 2026), pitched for collaboration with the J&K authorities successful sustainable tourism and vocational training in agriculture and nutrient sectors.
Ms. Tissafi’s connection came aft a two-day circuit of J&K wherever she held meetings with Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. Ms. Tissafi said, “Productive meetings successful Srinagar with Mr. Sinha and Mr. Abdullah connected the scope for collaboration successful Kashmir: from sustainable tourism and vocational grooming to nutrient processing and agriculture.”
A spokesperson of the J&K authorities said some the sides reaffirmed the value of practice successful promoting sustainable improvement and inclusive growth.
The touring ambassador highlighted her country’s relation successful contributing to the region’s improvement done the backstage sector, “from tunnels and bridges to hydropower tech and associated research”.
On her sojourn to Gulmarg, which has earthy settings person to the Alps successful Switzerland, Ms. Tissafi referred to the movies Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Jab Tak Hai Jaan. “Bollywood made some Switzerland and Gulmarg unforgettable connected screen. Seeing Gulmarg for the archetypal time, I could recognize wherefore filmmakers support returning to these valleys. However, beyond the beauty, upland regions besides stock communal responsibilities - resilience, sustainable tourism and catastrophe hazard reduction,” said Ms. Tissafi.
She announced that Switzerland “will proceed to enactment unneurotic successful the region, from a Himalayan glaciology collaborative programme astatine the University of Kashmir to unreality probe with ETH Zurich”.
A authorities spokesperson said CM Abdullah discussed a scope of issues of communal interest, including sustainable tourism, horticulture, and allied sectors.
“The gathering explored opportunities for the speech of champion practices successful sustainable tourism, hospitality, vocational acquisition and training, horticulture, dairying, and eco-friendly nutrient processing,” said the spokesman.
Mr. Abdullah emphasised the value of adopting champion practices successful these sectors to further fortify Jammu and Kashmir’s socio-economic improvement and guarantee semipermanent prosperity for its people. He highlighted the government’s imaginativeness of integrating innovative and sustainable approaches into determination readying and quality improvement frameworks aimed astatine creating employment opportunities, enhancing productivity, and improving the wide prime of life, said the spokesman.
Meanwhile, the Swiss Ambassador besides praised the section trade of Kashmir. “I besides had the accidental to witnesser the artistry of Kashmir’s shawl and carpet makers, and it was conscionable arsenic beauteous arsenic the scenery itself,” said Ms. Tissafi.
