This story is from November 12, 2014

Okhla park, Drona temple in Noida tourist trail plan

Responding to the long standing demands of the residents, some eight sites have already been identified to be promoted as tourist-friendly destinations in Noida and Greater Noida.
Okhla park, Drona temple in Noida tourist trail plan
NOIDA: The twin cities of Noida and Greater Noida are all set to be developed as top-notch tourist hotspots, after the national capital and Agra. A plan is being chalked out to promote the twin cities as tourist hotspots in six month’s time, Union minister of state for culture and tourism (independent charge) and Gautam Budh Nagar MP, Mahesh Sharma, told a delegation of residents who met him on Tuesday.

Responding to the long standing demands of the residents, some eight sites have already been identified to be promoted as tourist-friendly destinations in Noida and Greater Noida.
These spots include Bisrakh, said to be the birth place of Ravan, the demon king from the epic Ramayan, Dronacharya temple at Dankaur along the Yamuna Expressway — a place where guru Dronacharya from the epic Mahabharata refused to teach Eklavya. following which he had cast a stone as his guru and started practising on his own.
The stone is still present at the ancient temple in Nalgada village. It’s the same place where both Pandavas and Kauravas were taught archery and warfare by guru Drona. It’s also the place where freedom fighters Chandrashekhar Azad and Subhash Chandra Bose practiced revolutionary activities against the British and made crude bombs. Also, there’s Shaheed Smarak in Noida Sector 29, a memorial to honour those soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country and whose families reside in Noida. Apart from these, there’s the Okhla bird sanctuary, the proposed helipad and the long due night safari project along the Yamuna Expressway.
“All these have been the long standing demands of the residents of Noida which the minister has agreed to look into on priority basis,” said NP Singh, the president of Federation of Noida Residents’ Welfare Associations, a umbrella body of RWA.
The federation body has also demanded that a cultural recreational centre be built on the lines of Delhi’s India Habitat Centre.
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