India, July 21 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:

The Ministry of Tourism issued operational guidelines for 'Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment - Development of Iconic Tourist Centres to Global Scale'(SASCI) with the objective to comprehensively develop iconic tourist centres in the country, branding and marketing them at global scale.

Salient features of this endeavour include developing end to end tourist experience, funding support to the shortlisted proposals, strengthening all points of the tourist value chain, harnessing quality expertise for design and development, sustainable operations and maintenance etc.

The projects have been identified based on the project proposals submitted by th...