Government to consider set up of guest houses near Statue of unity: Gujrat

The Gujarat government has

written to the chief ministers of all states to consider

setting up guest houses near the newly-constructed Statue of

Unity of Sardar Vallabhai Patel.

A few states have evinced interest to set up the guest

houses, Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, Gujarat's minister for

education, law, justice and civil aviation said here Tuesday.

"We have written to the chief ministers including West

Bengal to consider setting up their state guest houses near

the statue. This will be an effort to boost tourism in

Gujarat," Chudasama said.

The Gujarat government constructed the 180-feet statue

of Sardar Patel at a cost of around Rs 3,000 crore in the Narmada

district on the state.

The minister said on an average, 15,000 visitors visit

the statue every day.

"It will be a lovely place for the states to set up

their guest houses near the statue," he said at a news

conference on 'Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2018' here.

Chudasama said that apart from textiles and ceramics,

tourism is also a major thrust area of the state.

In the 2017 edition of the summit, the government was

able to commission 73 per cent of the investment proposals

received by the state, he said.

There were other business interests like chemicals and

petrochemicals in the Dahej PCPIR (Petroleum, Chemicals and

Petrochemicals Incestment Region) area.

Asked to comment on the results of the Assembly polls

in Rajasthan, Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, he said "these

are state polls. The results will differ in the national

polls".

(With inputs from agencies.)