Bengal promotes Tea, Eco, Sundarban for tourists at IITF

New Delhi, Nov 16 (UNI) There is an all together new world where the tourists could see the slopping tea plantations in the middle Himalayan mountains of Kanchanjangha range in North Bengal, said the West Bengal Tourism and Cottage Industries Minister Manabendra Mukerjee.

Inaugurating the West Bengal Pavillon at the India International Trade Fair, 2006 here today Mr Mukerjee said this would throw open a new vistas for the domestic as well as for the foreign tourists in India.

He said the tea tourism is interwoven with the ecotourism in the state as when the tourists will move from one plantation site to other there are large patches of dense forests where one could locate a number of wild animals includng the single horn Indian Rhinos.

He said the state Government in order to attract the tourists flow in the state is rapidly developing the Sundarban delta region which would enable the tourists to have a glimpse of the Indian crocodile (Gharial), Alligator and a number of varities of tortoises.

Apart from this the world famous Royal Bengal Tigers can only be located in the marshy jungles of Sundarbans.

The minister said tourists flow would encourage a number of cottage and small scale industries to provide the basic infrastructure support.

The state Government has also developed a number of locations towards promoting adventure tourism in the state where arrangements were being made for a number of events for adventure sports, Mr Mukerjee added.

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