Badimalika Municipality is the first local level in Bajura to formulate a masterplan
MARTADI, FEBRUARY 3
Badimalika Municipality in Bajura district has prepared a Municipality-level Tourism Masterplan for promotion of tourist destinations.
The municipality stated that an integrated development plan had been brought for construction of tourism infrastructure by incorporating the natural, geographical, historical, religious and cultural aspects.
Highlighting that Badimalika Municipality had immense possibilities of tourism, municipality Mayor Padma Baduwal said they had developed a masterplan to explore the potential for economic development and prosperity of the municipality.
According to him, the masterplan has given special priority to change-oriented plans and programmes capable of improving the living standard of the municipality denizens by means of tourism.
The masterplan was formulated through collaboration between the municipality and GIZ, the German agency for international development. It also incorporates the long-term tourism development plan.
Badimalika Municipality is the first local level among the nine local levels in the district to formulate a tourism masterplan.
Deputy Mayor Kabita Bista said the plan had been prepared with the details of religious and tourism sites, areas of cultural and historical importance and pocket areas growing local indigenous crops in all the nine wards of the municipality.
The masterplan has given special place to religious tourism destinations like Badimalika, Kalajagra, Trivenipatan, Dunalek Porakhe area, and Bire waterfall.
It includes chapters related to religious beliefs, heritage sites, professions of local people, hotel business in the municipality and nature of trade, among others.
According to the municipality, the draft of the masterplan has been prepared following a month-long study, field observation and extensive consultations with locals. It has adopted the policy of preserving and promoting the local indigenous culture, language and costumes linking them with tourism and production. A municipality-level tourism development board has also been proposed in the masterplan.
A version of this article appears in the print on February 4, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
