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There is a documentary proof of this discovery. Though the Amarnath caves and the snow ‘Lingam’ therein has been thought to be a place of pilgrimage for centuries now, it is also a fact that the caves were ‘rediscovered’ by a Muslim shepherd of Batakot, Buta Malik, when he lost his flock and found that it had strayed into the sacred spot some 150 years ago. The Amarnath Yatra is the very symbol of Kashmiri culture
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The 2016 survey noted that even though the tourist season, which started during 2016 in April, was in full swing up to end of 7 July, 2016, the remaining about 4 months remained completely tense and registered closure of all activities due to turmoil resulting in almost zero arrival of tourists in the Valley. In 2013, the number of yatris alone was 3.53 lakhs. The total number of tourists in Kashmir Valley was 15.15 lakhs in 2013, which declined to 6.2 lakhs in 2016, including 2.2 lakhs Amarnath Yatra pilgrims. This sector has been a saviour for even unskilled workers as it provides direct employment to guides, ponywallas, sledgewallas, travel agents jobs in hotels/houseboats, besides those working in allied sectors like handicrafts, handlooms and transport.īut, an increasingly hostile situation in the Valley has worsened the economic scenario. That brought an estimated loss of Rs 13,291 crore during the last year comprising Rs 6,548.00-crore from private sector and Rs 6,713.00 crore from the government sector on account of hartals/curfews (130 days).Įven if normal travel to the valley halted, pilgrims kept going, even though reduced in number.Īnd without the industrial activity, the Valley is heavily dependent on pilgrims for revenues and employment. “The industrial units in industrial estate Lachipora, Khonmoh, Baghi Ali Mardan khan, Rangret, Anantag, Aischan, Chittipora, Baramulla, Bijbehara, Kupwara, HMT etc came to halt which resulted in the idle payment of wages to the skilled labour for more than 4 months and loss of production in Kashmir valley,” it said. Not just tourism now, other industry has also come to a grinding haltĪccording to the J&K economic survey 2016, industrial activity came to halt since last year. In the late 90s, one of the first people to resume travel to the strife strewn state were frm Maharashtra, specifically Mumbai, going there with the most famous Raja Rani Travels! So even after tourists had completely stopped going to Kashmir at the height of trouble, this industry was the first to resume again. The army had its presence then too, and even the friendliest of Kashmiris did give offense by referring to you as ” you Indians” but it was often a friendly banter.īut one fact is for sure, even in those halcyon days there was still abysmal poverty in Kashmir, so they were very aware that they needed the tourists. Kashmir – once the most favourite Honeymoon destinationĪpart from film shooting, the other ‘target group’ that headed to Kashmir, if they had the means, were newly married couples! Some photographs in this destination were a must: a romantic ride in the shikara, a hand-in-hand stroll by the side of the Dal lake and posing in front of the flowers of the famous Shalimar garden!!! One cannot name a single film that has been shot in Kashmir since the last 2 years.
(Though there was a hiatus of 2 decades when our producers were more in thrall of locations like Switzerland, New Zealand, New York, London etc.) If one assumes that shooting in Kashmir came to a grinding halt after militancy increased, even that assumption is wrong. Think Junglee, think Kashmir ki Kali, Jab jab phool khile in more recent years think of Hritik Roshan’s Mission Kashmir, the unforgettable Roza, Lamha, Haider etc. Time was, way back in the 60s and 70s, even up to the mid 80s that most Bollywood producers headed to Kashmir from May to September for a stint of outdoor shooting – whether the script required it or not! And then were films where Kashmir was itself the lead character. With its already very fragile economy where debt level has risen to Rs 55,358 crore at the end of 2015-16, which is almost five times its revenue, Travel industry can only salvage this beautiful state’s financial condition. Srinagar/Nagpur: What will the Amarnath attack, the worst in 16 years, do to the state of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh is a question that the state government will have to face seriously, and don’t mind the pun, on a war footing.