Lawmakers are keen to develop Pashupati area into an international tourist destination

Friday, August 16, 2019

Members of the National Assembly (NA) have highlighted the urgency of transforming the Pashupati area, the UNESCO world heritage site, into a religious tourism site of international standard.

On Tuesday in a meeting of the NA’s National Concern and Coordination Committee, the members of the Committee sought further management of the Pashupati area.

Committee President Dil Kumari Rawal agreed that if the Committee was informed about practical and legal problems to integrate immovable and movable properties in the name of Pashupati area, the Committee would organize a meeting with all bodies to look into the solutions to the issues.

Currently, a master plan concerning the Pashupati area is being set up and the Committee proposed the plan could envision the development for 50 years.

The lawmakers proposed modernizing the gaushalas (cow shelters) operated in the Pashupati area and implementing quality infrastructures.

Further systematizing the Nepal Ved Vidhyashram was also raised, (a Sanskrit school) operated by the Pashupati Area Development Trust, for bonding its heritages with tourism, preventing the abuse of its property so as to make it self-dependent.

During the meeting, well management of the Aryaghat area was also sought.

Dhana Khatiwada, Komal Oli, Deepa Gurung, Khimlal Bhattarai, Khemraj Nepali, and Surendra Raj Pandey were among those putting their views in the meeting.

In reply, PADT member-secretary Dr. Pradeep Dhakal explained that the government had assigned Rs 3.5 million for the physical development of Pashupatinath area.

He shared the PADT was opposing a plan of a certain group to utilize Pashupati area as a dumping site and making efforts to make it a failure. He complained of the absence of necessary cooperation towards that end.

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