The state government has decided to develop infrastructure for tourists in Jharkhand. Toward the same end,the tourism department has to run its hotels,information centres and complexes on the PPP mode.
A tender was published seeking request for proposal.To run these hotels,centres and complexes,the department had decided to lease them out to companies for a period varying between 10 to 30 years so that they can maintain,upgrade and run them.
Right now,the hotels,centres and complexes that were to be leased out were either dead,non- functional or have become ghost houses.Most of them were located in prime locations.
They include:Hotel Sakchi Vihar,Jamshedpur,Hotel Vibhuti Vihar,Ghatshila,near Jamshedpur,tourist information centre and complex at Madhuvan,Giridih,tourist information centres,Hazaribagh and Jamshedpur,Tourist complex,Palamau,Jungle Hut at Betla,Palamau and Way- Side Amenties,Kandra,near Jamshedpur.