The next stage in the plan to develop Gulmarg, Kashmir into a fully functional ski resort has been stalled be protesters. The government had planned to lease land to local residents who were then to be encouraged to seek partnership with outside investors to develop hotels and other facilities typical of an'International Standard Ski Resort'. However, after a campaign of protest focussed upon 'selling the area off to outsiders' the leasing plans have been postponed. Now the protest has shifted tack, instead focussing upon protecting the environment of the area from development per se....This is not as simple as it seems though as the energy driving the protest appears to be coming from seperatist political groups campaigning for Kashniri independence from India. Hence their primary motivation is seen by many as simlpy to put a spoke in the wheels of another plan by the Indian Government.
snowHeads avidly watched the development of the
Gulmarg Cable Car, a 5km long bubble, which opened in May 2005
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