{"id":3250,"date":"2023-02-25T04:44:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T23:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:45:35","slug":"dekho-apna-desh-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dekho-apna-desh-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Dekho Apna Desh initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why in news?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Baba Saheb Ambedkar Yatra, designed by IRCTC, aims to highlight the places and destinations associated with Ambedkar&#8217;s life.<\/li>\n<li>The First Journey of the Baba Saheb Ambedkar Yatra will be from New Delhi in April 2023.<\/li>\n<li>As part of the &#8220;Dekho Apna Desh&#8221; initiative, the Ministry of Railways, in collaboration with the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), operates Bharat Gaurav Tourist Trains on various theme-based circuits throughout India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Dekho Apna Desh initiative<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry:<\/strong> The Ministry of Tourism<\/li>\n<li>The scheme aims to <strong>promote tourism <\/strong>and encourage people to explore the rich cultural heritage and diversity of India.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme is intended to offer financial help to tourists travelling to different parts of India.<\/li>\n<li>The government has set aside a substantial budget for the implementation of this scheme, which will be used to promote travel and build out tourist infrastructure around the nation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objectives:<\/strong> The scheme aims to increase domestic tourism in India and under this plan, around 50 destinations in the country will be developed and promoted to attract tourist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)What is Heritage ?<\/h3>\n<p>Heritage is the cultural legacy which we receive from the past, which we live in the present and which we will pass on to future generations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1902069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>IRCTC\u00a0 to\u00a0 operate\u00a0 Baba Saheb Ambedkar Yatra tour package under the \u201cDekho Apna Desh\u201d initiative<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scheme aims to promote tourism and encourage people to explore the rich cultural heritage and diversity of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}