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Importance of Water at Pilgrimage Holy Town, Mata Vaishno Devi Katra

Vikas Bhola, Inderpal Singh, Minakshi Jain

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Katra depends majorly on tourism for its economic boost. The number of people taking the holy pilgrimage of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi is increasing every year. However, with this increase comes positive as well as negative impacts. This increase has provided Katra with an economic boost but it’s also eating away at its natural resources. One of the most needed and hardest hit resources has been water; especially the Banganga river. This paper presents the problems arising out of the development being carried out constantly in Katra and tries to understand the positives and negatives and then present some strategies to combat it.


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