Anantnag, June 19 -- Union Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat visited the Sun Temple in Anantnag on Thursday.

The Union Minister said that the way tourism has recovered in Jammu and Kashmir in the last 1.5 months, the administration will be able to achieve pre-Pahalgam status by December.

"Wapas acche din lautenge...The way tourism has recovered in J&K in the last 1.5 months, we will be able to achieve pre-Pahalgam status by December", Shekhawat told ANI.

The tourist flow has reportedly gone down after a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, which claimed 26 lives.

Earlier, on the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Governm...