India to develop Wagah-Attari border

NEW DELHI—India is planning to invest heavily to develop areas proximate to the Pakistan-India border at Wagah as a global tourism destination.
“The Asian Age” reported from Chandigarh that Chief Minister Punjab Parkash Singh chaired a special meeting discussing possibilities of fully exploiting the international tourist interest in Punjab and the India-Pakistan frontier in particular. Most of the Badal government’s plans for the Attari-Wagah border will be funded by the government of India. Media adviser of the Punjab state Harcharan Bains said, “the government will hire renowned tourism infrastructure professionals to design a sprawling facility equipped with state-of-the-art recreation gadgetry, gardens, expansive parking spaces, restaurants and hotels near Wagah and along the Amritsar-Attari Road. “The existing beating retreat ceremony will continue to be the focus of tourist interest but the government will use this also to focus on Punjabi culture and heritage,” Bains said.—Agencies