Summary:
AdvertisingDal Lake-like shikaras, floating restaurants and hotels, rafting, canoeing and parasailing are among several major initiatives planned by Punjab Tourism minister Navjot Singh Sidhu at Harike and upstream Beas and Sutlej to develop the wetlands as a major tourism attraction. It will have floating restaurant, floating hotel and Kashmir-like shikaras. He said after an analysis of the expenditure incurred and returns received in the amphibious bus project last year, it was decided to scrap the project. While scrapping the project, Sidhu had announced that the bus would be auctioned. The additional water released in Harike for smooth functioning of the bus had ruined crops in several adjoining villages, Sidhu claimed..