The Secretary Tourism and Floriculture, Farooq Ahmad Shah Tuesday said that this year will witness the mega Tulip festival which will be part of ‘Bahaar-e-Kashmir’ event to showcase the Asia’s largest Tulip garden which has more than 20 lakh tulips in its lap with 46 varieties spread across huge Tulip garden in Srinagar in the backdrop of mighty humbled Zabarwan range of mountains.
According to the statement, the Secretary announced that this festival will be of fifteen days duration and will have properly decorated food and handcraft stalls, kiosks to showcase the rich craft and cuisine of the valley with traditional ethnic touch.
The Secretary also said that on the sidelines of this mega Tulip festival Bahar-e-Kashmir one Aalmi Mushaira will be organised in which world famous poets will participate and deliver their latest poems in Urdu this will be one of the first of its kind in the valley.
Secretary Tourism was accompanied by the Director Floriculture Kashmir M H Mir, Director Tourism Kashmir Mehmood Ahmad Shah, Dy Director Tourism Kashmir Peerzada Zahoor and other officials of Tourism and floriculture.
Later, the Secretary also had an interactive session with the SKICC staff and discussed about various methods and strategies to improve the quality of services in the said international conference centre.
He stressed the employees to work with zeal and ensure the delivery of quality services with adequate quantity and maintain the international standard of the centre. (KNS)