{"id":10683,"date":"2020-03-17T04:49:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T04:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=10683"},"modified":"2020-03-17T04:49:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T04:49:53","slug":"tourism-ministry-identified-17-sites-to-develop-them-as-iconic-tourist-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/tourism-ministry-identified-17-sites-to-develop-them-as-iconic-tourist-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Ministry identified 17 sites to develop them as Iconic Tourist Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ministry of Tourism has identified 17 sites in 12 clusters\nin the country for development as Iconic Tourist Sites namely Taj Mahal &amp;\nFatehpur Sikri (Uttar Pradesh), Ajanta &amp; Ellora (Maharashtra), Humayuns Tomb, Red Fort &amp; Qutub Minar (Delhi), Colva (Goa), Amer Fort\n(Rajasthan), Somnath &amp; Dholavira (Gujarat),&nbsp;\nKhajuraho (Madhya Pradesh), Hampi (Karnataka),&nbsp; Mahabalipuram (Tamil Nadu), Kaziranga\n(Assam), Kumarakom (Kerala) and Mahabodhi Temple (Bihar).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry shall be developing the above sites in an\nintegrated manner with focus on issues concerning connectivity to the\ndestination, better facilities\/experience for the tourists at the site, skill\ndevelopment, involvement of local community, promotion &amp; branding and by\nbringing private investment. Availability of land free from all incumberances\nfor the proposed developments under the scheme is the responsibility of the\nrespective State Governments\/UT administrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Tourism has identified 17 sites in 12 clusters in the country for development as Iconic Tourist Sites namely Taj Mahal &amp; Fatehpur Sikri (Uttar Pradesh), Ajanta &amp; Ellora (Maharashtra), Humayuns Tomb, Red Fort &amp; Qutub Minar (Delhi), Colva (Goa), Amer Fort (Rajasthan), Somnath &amp; Dholavira (Gujarat),&nbsp; Khajuraho (Madhya Pradesh), Hampi (Karnataka),&nbsp; Mahabalipuram (Tamil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[914],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-10683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10685,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions\/10685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10683"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=10683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}