ODISHA GOVERNMENT SUBMITS REPORTS ON HUMAN SAFARI TO THE CENTRE

ODISHA GOVERNMENT SUBMITS REPORTS ON HUMAN SAFARI TO THE CENTRE 1/02/2012
ODISHA NEWS:

The Odisha government on Tuesday submits report to Centre on human safari issue. This was informed by SC and ST development secretary Santosh Sarangi told reporters here.

He said that, "we have sent an interim report to the tribal affairs ministry which sought our views on media report which highlighted a specific tribal group". Besides informing the Centre about state tourism department's awareness campaign among the tour operators, Sarangi said that a full-fledged report will be submitted soon following field visit by a senior officer.
The state government had sent a senior woman IAS officer to Malkangiri district to study the present scenario in the field level.


The tourism department has, meanwhile, held meetings with tour operators and travel agencies asking them to delete any objectionable material from their websites and brochure. The tour operators have responded positively to our request, said tourism and culture secretary Ashok Kumar Tripathy.


Meanwhile, taking suo motu cognizance of media reports, the state police has registered a case against a tour operator for selling objectionable tourism products.

SIDDHARTHA SHANKAR MISHRA,
BUREAU CHIEF, THESE DAYS,
ODISHA