Patriata cable car reopens for tourists

TDCP MD reviews facilities to be provided to tourists

RAWALPINDI:

The Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab (TDCP) has reopened the facility of cable car for the tourists in Patriata after necessary repairs.

The reopening of the tourist facility was done during a visit of the Patriata Chairlift (New Murree) by TDCPS new managing director Agha Muhammad Ali Abbas, who reviewed all the facilities to be provided to the tourists in detail. The TDCP MD also visited Patriata Top and inspected the cable car.

On the occasion, Abbas vowed to take every Possibe step to provide quality and safe recreational facilities to the tourists. He said: "By promoting local tourism through cable car and chair lift, the people there will get livelihood opportunities which will improve their quality of life."

He said considering the interest of the tourists, the cable car facility was restored after necessary repairs. He ordered the TDCP management to ensure in time technical inspection of all the chairlifts and provision of the best facilities to the tourists.

Manager TDCP Ijaz Butt said that the rehabilitation of the cable car in Patriata will continue to attract more tourists.

Promotion of cultural heritage urged

Meanwhile, Federal Parliamentary Secretary for National Heritage and Culture Division Sardar Muhammad Irfan Dogar has said that the country's real image could only be highlighted through the promotion of its cultural heritage.

Dogar, in a news statement, said that all federal cultural departments were directed to focus on promotion of cultural heritage in the country. Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) and National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage would soon organise annual cultural events, he added.

The federal parliamentary secretary said local artists and artisans from across the country would be invited to showcase their beautiful and diverse culture at one place and cultural exchanges would be arranged with different countries.

Dogar said Pakistan was custodian of diverse cultural heritage due to which people from all over the world were interested in visiting the country to see the cultural heritage sites.

With additional input from APP

 

Published in The Express Tribune, October 13^th, 2022.