VISION TOURISM 2020 - Aurangabad District

7. Souvenir Shops: MTDC/ITDC Tourist information center Tourism booking
center and one souvenir shops.
8. Children Play Area: For the Visitors Children's
9. Food Plaza: It will serve the local food in traditional way in 17 food stalls.
10. Exhibition hall & Dormitory: For local Art & Crafts, For the stay of artist at
the time of festival at economical rate will be taken in IInd Phase.
11. Night Bazaar: (Proposed) It will be facilitated with shopping utilities.
12. Project Cost: 442 Lacs for I st Phase & 200 Lacs for II nd Phase including
night bazaar, exhibition halls & dormitories etc.
Benefits of Projects:
This project will provide.
1) The opportunity to craft person to demonstrate their artistic skills to the
thousands of tourist visiting Aurangabad Kalagram.
2) This complex will also provide market for the Himroo, Paithani and other
local Crafts.
3) This will bring the Socio-economic change in and around rural area of
Marathwada.
4) This will generate employment for about 1000 people.
5) This will provide platform for the folk like Dombare, Vasudev which are now
a days diminishing.
SITUATION/ GAP/ NEED ANALYSIS
1. STATEMENT OF UNIVERSAL VALUE
Aurangabad District is blessed with 2 unparalleled world Heritagesites of Ajanta and Ellora.
Ajanta also happens to be the first monument in the country along with Ellora and Taj Mahal to
make it to the World Heritage site list of UNESCO in the year 1983 India has 27 properties of both
cultural and natural significance out of which 4 are in Maharashtra and 2 in th District. There seems
to be a huge gap in attnining the statement of Univerasal value. It’s not Ajanta, Ellora It’s World
Heritage. This gap needs to be filled in.
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