AGARTALA, July 9 (TIWN): Rock murals at Chabimura are all set to get a new lease of live with the forest department making efforts to transform it into a most attractive eco tourism destination.
Chabimura, barely a 7 km drive from Amarpur town has enormous murals on the bank of river Gumati, the longest river in the state.

Keeping in mind of its unique beauty, the forest department unfolded an ambitious plan to make it an ideal eco tourism destination. As part of the plan, two water jetties would be established at Chabimura and Maharanipur so that tourist could enjoy boating on the river. Besides, a landscape development project has already been initiated at Chabimura to attract domestic as well as foreign tourists, said Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), Gumati S Prabhu over telephone from Jatanbari in Amarpur subdivision.

One interpretation centre is planned to be established at Chabimura where all information about the Chabimura will be available, he said adding that this would give tourists or students to know about the eco tourism. “Two big size guest houses are in the pipeline at Chabimura so that tourists could stay there to enjoy the natural beauty”, he said. Of the total Rs. 2.67 crore, an amount of Rs. 1.33 crore has already been spent to face lift the Chabimura eco tourism centre, which could be one of the best eco tourism spots in the state.

Here it may be noted that the department has embarked on a mission to explore the states’s potential in the field of eco tourism to transform the rural economy. However, newly floated Tourism Directorate and Tripura Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC) have failed to draw up a plan to boost the eco tourism which has tremendous possibility.