Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Limited is funding the construction of National Disaster Mitigation Centre and YatriNiwas in Sidhra, Jammu. Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas for Petroleum, and Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri, and Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir Manoj Sinha laid the centre’s foundation stone on 6 June 2023.
Every year, lakhs of tourists visit Srinagar and Amarnath. The large footfalls have been causing logistical challenge for a long time, especially for the needy tourists and pilgrims. This ONGC-funded YatriNiwas will solve this logistical challenge to a large extent, by providing accommodation for 30,000 tourists in a year, thus staggering the movement of tourists and pilgrims.
