Tourism
The Ganderbal district is not only the valley of Nallah Sindh, it is equally rich in landscape. It has great exposure in adventure tourism. The nature has been generous in gifting the district with places of unparalleled beauty. It is obvious to call it as the district of lakes, as it possesses the most number of lakes in the whole State. Before the advent of armed insurrection in the state, these lakes were the main attraction for foreign tourists who used used to visit these places so often. But since the early 1990s, strategic areas of all of these pleasure spots have been occupied by Indian army and paramilitary forces. In addition, the government has preferred a policy of environmentally hazardous development program which mainly consist of building concrete structures in these places, thus harming their natural beauty and the ecological balance.
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“In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.”
—Robert Runcie (b. 1921)