{"id":93900,"date":"2026-02-05T23:46:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=93900"},"modified":"2026-02-05T23:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:16:35","slug":"will-take-up-issue-of-closure-of-tourist-places-with-union-home-minister-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/will-take-up-issue-of-closure-of-tourist-places-with-union-home-minister-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Will take up issue of closure of tourist places with Union Home Minister: CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<strong>Time has come to re-open them; Govt in process to revise registration rules of tourist units\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Feb 05 (KNO): Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said that he will take up the issue of re-opening tourist places, which were closed after the Pahalgam attack, with Union Minister Amit Shah during his visit to Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the Legislative Assembly, the CM, as per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said the time has come to open tourist places that were closed in the Kashmir Valley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a fact that some areas were closed. The time has come to open them,\u201d the CM said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The CM added that talks are continuing with the Government of India over the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI assure the House that the closure of tourist spaces will be taken up with the Home Minister, who is visiting Jammu and Kashmir,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He further said that the registration process in the tourism sector is cumbersome and needs to be revised.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe agree that the registration process is cumbersome. We have not reviewed the rules and procedures since 1978. We are working on it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The CM explained that linking the registration of tourism units with the Public Service Guarantee Act-a law that ensures the delivery of government services in a time-bound manner-does not prevent corruption.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Government is contemplating simplifying the registration process either through self-declaration or deemed approval\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Time has come to re-open them; Govt in process to revise registration rules of tourist units&rdquo; Srinagar, Feb 05 (KNO): Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said that he will take up the issue of re-opening tourist places, which were closed after the Pahalgam attack, with Union Minister Amit Shah during his visit to Jammu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93902,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93900\/revisions\/93902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}