In spite of having many natural resources, Nirmal district has been lagging behind in tourism development. The implementation of proposed tourism corridor has been lagging behind for want of release of funds by the then BRS regime. However, hopes being kindled on the revival of the project with the advent of Congress government in Telangana.
The tourism corridor development project involves bringing various renowned temples in the region under the tourism circuit besides visiting various irrigation projects, famous forts in Nirmal town, Kawwal tiger reserve and water falls in the region.
An action plan has been prepared by the BRS regime, but the tourism corridor did not progress beyond the action plan stage.
The then tourism commissioner visited various parts of the district and prepared an action plan for the tourism corridor development project.
He even prepared a route map linking all places of tourist attractions. Right from Basara Gyana Saraswati temple to Kawwal water falls have been covered in the route map.
With Nirmal town as the nucleus, the tourism department proposed development of tourism corridor on three sides of the town. Accordingly, a master plan has been evolved to develop Basara temple at a cost of Rs 50 crore. It is linked to Kadili Papahareshwara temple, Kalva Lakshmi Venkateswara Swamy temple and Burugupalli Rajarajeswara Swamy temple. Similarly, the Gandiramanna Saibaba temple and Mallannagutta Harihara pilgrimage centre have been included in the corridor.
The officials who prepared the master plan so that tourists will visit all these temples, included natural resources, forts and ramparts of various in the corridor project.
There were plans to develop ShyamGhad and BattisGhad forts in Nirmal town and some works have been implemented.
Lighting of these forts and some development works inside the forts have been implemented. Since the development works are not implemented in full scale, the tourists have been hesitating to visit the forts.
The tourism development corridor also involves Kawwal tiger reserve. Visit to the SRSP project, old bridge on rivers Sone and Godavari, Kadem projects is also included as part of the project. The Kuntala and Pochhera water falls have been included as part of the project.
The BRS regime did not release the funds. Therefore, the officials did not take up the tourism corridor development works.
Since the Congress government has been giving priority to the tourism development, hopes on the tourism corridor projects have been revived. The people have been urging the new regime to implement the tourism corridor project.
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