Five new Mahindra Holidays resorts to come up in state

Font Size -

Express news service

Posted online: Friday , February 29, 2008 at 02:50:41
Updated: Friday , February 29, 2008 at 03:10:42

Kolkata, February 28 The Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd (MHRIL), a part of the Mahindra Group of companies, will be investing around Rs 200 crore over the next three years for setting up resorts in the state.

Chairman of Mahindra Holidays Arun Nanda said that MHRIL intends to set up four to five resorts in the state. The resorts will be situated at Jaldapara, Gorumara, Mandarmani, Darjeeling and Sunderbans.

“In the first phase, we will invest Rs 200 crore. Around four to five resorts, each having around 100 rooms, will be built,” he said

The group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the West Bengal Tourism Development Corporation and the Sundarban Infrastructure Development Corporation on Thursday in the presence of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and other ministers concerned.

“The MHRIL shall develop and commercially operate the resorts developed by it so that it enables the rapid economic development and employment in the state,” a statement released by the group stated.

Talking to the reporters, Nanda said that the chief minister has expressed interest in developing Sunderbans as a world-class destination. The group’s team has identified two sites in the region, but is yet to finalise the site. The work, however, is expected to commence before the year-end, he said.

The group has said that all its projects will be put in place, keeping environmental considerations in mind. Nanda assured that “till environmental assessment study has been completed, we will not dig a hole”.

Each of the resorts — falling in three to four star categories — will be located on 10 to 20 acres of land and will have around 100 rooms.

Tourism minister Manabendra Mukherjee said that this venture is the first step towards revamping state’s tourism sector and many more such projects are expected to materialise in future.

Bookmark this Page

What is this?

Digg

On Digg, users share intersting online content by submitting links to the site. At that point, the Digg audience can vote on whether or not they think it is interesting. Articles with lots of votes, or "diggs," rise up higher on the site's main page and topical subsection pages. Another form of social sharing, this site also lets users categorize the content they are submitting to Digg and label it with descriptions of up to 350 characters. Digg users can also submit comments on each content item submitted to the site.

To register, go to: http://digg.com/register

del.icio.us

At its most basic level, del.icio.us allows users to save their bookmarks online. Del.icio.us also gives users the ability to "tag" their bookmarks with descriptive category names. For example, someone who has bookmarked multiple Web pages that deal with the Washington Nationals baseball team could tag those links with any terms they want, like "baseball," "nationals," "natsfan," etc.

As members of a "social bookmarking" community, del.icio.us sers can also see how many other people have bookmarked the same pages, and they can look at those users' bookmark collections to find other interesting online content.

To register, go to: http://del.icio.us/register

Reddit

Reddit allows users to submit news articles and other online content to the site. Users also give articles a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Reddit then uses those votes to build a user profile and to find articles to recommend to you. Users can also submit comments on items posted to the site.

To register, go to: http://reddit.com/login

Digg

My Yahoo

Fark

del.icio.us

Newsvine

Rate this Article

Rating

Post Comments

Name*		Email ID*
Subject*		Country*
Message*	Characters remaining

TERMS OF USE: The views represented here are not neccesarily endorsed by www.expressindia.com and its allied websites. All messages will be moderated and no message that has inflammatory, abusive, derogatory language or any language deemed unfit for publication by the editor will be displayed. Though it will be endeavoured that as many messages as possible be displayed, there will be time lag between the submission and publication of the messages. The website reserves the right to publish or reject any message.

I agree to the terms of use.