Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that facilities at India's 25 Cultural World Heritage Sites are still deficient and require restoration.
While presenting the General Budget 2015-16 in the Parliament today, the Finance Minister stated that the facilities like landscaping restoration, signage and interpretation centres, parking, access for differently abled, amenities for visitors including securities and toilets, illumination and plans for benefiting communities around them would be restored.
Jaitley has proposed to provide resources to start work along these lines for the following Heritage Sites: churches and convents of old Goa, Hampi, Karnataka, Kumbalgarh and other hill forts of Rajasthan, Rani ki Vav, Patan, Gujarat, Leh Palace, Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, Varanasi, Jalianwala bagh, Qutub Shahi Tombs in Hyderabad and Telangana.
Jaitley has proposed to extend the visas on arrival facility to 150 countries, in stages, after the success of the same issued to travelers of 43 countries.
