Srinagar, Aug. 5 -- The Jammu & Kashmir Cabinet on Tuesday cleared several major proposals aimed at boosting tourism and infrastructure in the Union Territory.

Sources disclosed to KNO that the cabinet approved outsourcing of operations and maintenance of Hotel Ashok at Gulmarg through the public private partnership model for a concession period of 40 years, including a five-year construction phase.

In 1984, the J&K Government leased 64 kanals of land to the India Tourism Development Corporation Limited (ITDC) for 40 years to construct a hotel at Gulmarg. However, ITDC was unable to complete the project and eventually returned the land and its incomplete structure to the J&K Tourism Department.

The Cabinet also gave its go-ahead to the...