The live performance is being organised collectively by the Union Residence Ministry and the Jammu and Kashmir authorities
The live performance is being organised collectively by the Union Residence Ministry and the Jammu and Kashmir authorities and is aimed toward selling tourism and Kashmiri tradition amid heightened terror-related violence within the valley.
Companies within the Kashmir Valley, significantly tourism-related actions, have seen a stoop since final yr when the state was rocked by road violence following the killing of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani.
The variety of vacationers visiting the valley has seen a pointy dip this yr.
Based on Kashmir tourism gamers, the valley has witnessed the bottom arrival of vacationers within the final three many years from July 2016 to September 2017.Trade leaders in Kashmir met Union Residence Minister Rajnath Singh throughout his September go to to the valley and requested him to assist them because the destructive protection in regards to the state within the digital media has led to dip in vacationer footfalls.
The Minister assured them of each potential assist in order that the valley might regain its stature as one of many high vacationer locations on this planet.
Residence Ministry sources mentioned the live performance, to be organised on the Sher-i-Kashmir Worldwide Conference Centre on the jap shore of Dal Lake, is in step with Singh’s promise.
“The musical live performance initiative is to advertise tourism and tradition within the valley and unfold a message that the valley isn’t just for terror violence,” a Residence Ministry official mentioned.
London-born Sami is an Indian singer, music composer, pianist and actor. He was born to a Pakistani diplomat and his mom was an Indian Kashmiri, and it was solely 18 years in the past that he relocated to India.
Final month, Kashmiri singer Aabha Hanjura, a migrant Kashmiri Pandit, attracted an enormous viewers for her present titled Saaz-e-Kashmir.
Based on officers, the state authorities would bear all bills for organiaing Sami’s live performance.
