 This small film has set the tone of what I need to speak about Uttar Pradesh. I'm thankful to August's news channel who's given us this opportunity to present before you. Now, what, did all of you, especially the students, did you recognize where was our Honorable Prime Minister and the Chief Minister of UP standing? Do you recognize? Where were they? Yeah. So this was the newly developed Kashi Vishwanath Corridor. Now, we have been talking like what happened during COVID period, the pandemic. The tourism industry was the worst hit. The hotels had no business. The tour operators, the tourist were not coming in. So there was hardly any business. And a lot of people from all walks of life are associated with tourism. So they all had bad days. But then something happened and the entire scenario of tourism has changed in Uttar Pradesh. Our Honorable Prime Minister and our Chief Minister. During the pandemic, the thought came because tourists were not coming, temples were closed. Let's redo the Kashi Vishwanath Temple. Now, as you see what happens, traditionally in our temples, they are not very clean. They are not very accessible. You go to temples of dirt, dirt, dirt. This was the scene with most of our places. But then our Prime Minister, who's a visionary, he realized this and he decided to make it a clean and a decent place so that everybody gets a beautiful experience of visiting the temple. So he came up with the idea of Kashi Vishwanath Corridor. If some of you must have visited it in earlier days, there used to be narrow lanes. There used to be lanes from the streets, where there were dirt roads, dirt roads, dirt roads. Everything used to be clean. We bought about 300-400 houses around there. We bought them, we resettled them somewhere else. We opened the entire places. Now there is no lane, no gully, nothing. A huge beautiful corridor exists, which you have seen in this short clip. People can go and have a very beautiful darshan at the temple. There are beautiful food courts, there's an exhibition center, there are halls, there can be religious activities in the temple. Then we made another essence from the river Ganga side, the Gangadwar. You can reach the temple because the roads are very narrow. The roads are from the older days. There's a huge traffic congestion in Varanasi. So now we've made another route. You go to the ghats, end ghats, Namo ghats, created again by the Honourable Prime Minister's vision. From Namo ghats, you can take a boat or a cruise and you can come and disembark right behind the Kashi Vishnath Temple at the Gangadwar. And you can go and visit the temple and come back by the same route without experiencing any kind of traffic congestion. So now what happened because of this corridor? The entire scenario of tourism has changed in Varanasi. 2021, the temple, the newly built corridor got inaugurated in the month of December. Now the year 2022, we had, from January to December, we had 7 crore tourists in Varanasi. Can you imagine 7 crore tourists? And this is no guesstimate. This is an actual figure. How does it come? We have put headcount machines on all the four gates. There are four entry points of the temple. They headcount machines on all gates. So we get the actual number, how many heads are coming and how many are going out. 1% of them can be subtracted. They may be the priests, the policemen or the regular people. But then, rest of all are tourists. Now what has this brought to the city of Varanasi? All the hotels are full. It is a major difficult task today to get a room in Varanasi. There are advance bookings, 6-6 months in advance. We have got a whole lot of them, no less than 100 hotels in Varanasi. A huge number, another 100 home stays. But then, accommodation is still short. Now, the coming in of tourists is bringing all the benefits which occur when tourism activity takes place. The flower sellers who are sitting outside the temple, their earning, per day their earning is from 40,000 to 70,000. Can you imagine? A flower seller is earning to this tune, the Prasadwalas, the Erikshawalas, because the transport like cars and all cannot go to the temple. They have to park a kilometer before it. So, people take Eriksha. So, the Eriksha pullers, the boatmen, they are all benefiting. So, the benefits of tourism are going to all walks of life. Every person who is engaged in any kind of touristic activity in the city of Varanasi is benefiting by this inflow of tourists. Now, this experiment was so successful and now the year 2023. The seven Koran tourists has now converted into 13 Koran tourists. We had more than 13 Koran tourists in the year 2020-23. And this figure is going to increase even more. Now, this experiment gave, like, this was a very, very successful experiment and then it was copied in Madhya Pradesh and the Ujjain corridor came up, Mahakal corridor came up and again a very, very successful model. Now, we have realized the importance of making our religious places clean and presentable. Very near to Varanasi is Mirzapur. I don't know how many of you know it is the seat of Vindivasni Devi. It is one of the Shakti Peeths. So, we have built another corridor there. In the coming Navratri, it will be inaugurated. We bought four, five hundred houses around it. It was again a place very congested, narrow lanes and pandas and pujaris or like it was difficult for the tourists to come. Now, they are all wiped out. Place is cleaned. The properties have been purchased. They have been relocated, rehabilitated and a beautiful corridor is coming up in Vindhachal. This will again draw tourists. The people who are coming to Varanasi will also go to Vindhachal. Similarly, we are building another corridor in Saharanpur, Shakumbari Devi, that is another Shakti Peeth. So, similar corridor is coming up in Shakumbari Devi. We are doing working for betterment of Nehmi Sharane. And Ayodhya, of course, Ayodhya is going to be the biggest destination for at least coming 10, 20 years. People world over would like to come and visit the Ram Mandir at least once in a lifetime. So, Ayodhya is not going to look back now. And what is happening with the tourists coming into Ayodhya? Ayodhya was a very sleepy small town. I have been posted twice in Ayodhya once in 1999, the year 1999 and again in 2005. Can you imagine that time you would never, it was very difficult to get 100 gram Amul butter there. This was the scene. There were hardly any restaurants. Now today Ayodhya is going to be entirely transformed. A new Ayodhya is coming up. All sorts of, not only the Ram Mandir. All sorts of modern amenities. Like today all hotel groups are wanting land in Ayodhya. Somebody just said, the prices are shooting like anything. No land is available. So, now what is going to happen? Ayodhya, which was earlier very less visited by tourists because of the connectivity reasons. Now is going to be the focal point of tourism in the state of Uttapadesh. What is going to be the result of this development? Lucknow. The people are going to come to Lucknow and start their journey from Lucknow. So, Lucknow in any case is the state capital and has all kind of amenities. Lucknow is going to prosper. From Lucknow they'll come to Ayodhya. But not stop at Ayodhya. Further they'll go to Priyagraj. The city of the holy Sangam. From Priyagraj to Varanasi. Some may also go to Chitrakoot. So, now this entire circuit is going to be prosperous and filled with tourists. And then this eastern UP which was a little like western UP is always more developed than more opportunities. But eastern UP was a little less developed. With lesser number of opportunities. Now this tourism is going to change the scene of the economy of eastern Uttapadesh. So, this is what tourism does. So, this was a small, I just gave you a bit of idea. I would endorse the view of Mr. Panda when he said tourism should be part of our studies. It should be a subject. It's a complete science. I have been delivering lectures in various universities. And I find like tourism like children think, what is tourism? What is tourism? Tourism is a complete science. And when you study it like a subject from your childhood, then you are sensitized. You understand the importance of tourism. What tourism can do? How it can affect the life? How it can affect the economy? How can it affect the infrastructure of the cities? So, I support the view. Tourism should be a subject and should be taught like all other subjects. Thank you.