More than 26,000 tourists have visited Meghalaya from December, when the state reopened to outside visitors, and March 4, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma, who also holds the tourism portfolio, told the Assembly today.
While these figures are still significantly down from pre-Covid times, the numbers have been increasing with each successive month.
In December 5,551 tourists came to Meghalaya (the state only reopened to outside visitors towards the latter half of the month) and this increased to 9,558 in January and 9,664 in February. There were 1,350 incoming tourists in the first four days of this month as well.
Sangma informed that the government has decided to waive one year’s worth of dues that businesses who had taken government property on lease were to pay; this will cost the state exchequer Rs 1.82 crore.
