The minister of
culture tourism and civil Aviation plans to open two departments and an
Aviation safety study agency in a bid to make more efficient the country’s
tourism and aviation sector tourism and aviation sector. The two departments
and the agency will purpose straight under the ministry. According to ministry
officials , the present tourism business separation will bra efficient as the
Department of culture and museum will be set up to conserve and refresh the
country’s cultural and natural heritage . The Department of tourism will be
responsible for as long as services in the most efficient manner besides adaptable
the country’s tourism industry.
Training for
creating the tourism Department will be finished by this fiscal year and it
will start working under its new avatar by the next fiscal said Mohan Krishna sapkota
representative of the ministry. This department will make sure that the licenses
necessary to set up businesses like hotels and travel agencies are issued on
time besides formulate policy on tax and other matters in the view of the need asset
said government officials. The department will also create single window system
regarding the issuance of licenses and permits for new hospitality businesses. For
example an capitalist wishing to open a five star hotel has to go through various.
The tourism division issues the operating licenses in the last phase. Similarly
the future Department of culture and museum of culture and museum will deal
with both tangible and intangible heritage resources and consider museums as
key vehicles for their conservation and promotion. Sapkota said that they would
be conduct friendship and methods before happening with the plan to set up the
new departments.
Meanwhile the
planned Aviation safely study bureau will recommend and give inputs on the
developments and weakness in the area of aviation safety. IT will have a team
of experts to study trends to simplify complex matters in the aviation sector
said sapkota. The think tank will be authorized to examine any air accident. the
experts will be hired on a contract basis As every probe panel formed to examine
air crashes has been criticize for being a toothless committee government
officials said that such an independent body would help find out the actual
reasons behind any crash and also make recommendations to prevent such
incidents in the future . Nepal’s aviation safety record has taken a severe
blow with a series of air crashes recently. Ministry officials said that the
effort to set up an study bureau was encouraged by Nepal’s being blacklisted by
the European charge on Dec 5 2013 the Ec banned all Nepal based airlines from
flying in the European union terming them unsafe.