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Himachal pradesh is the leader in hydropower generation in india, with five perennial rivers flowing through the state. the state ranks second in apple and almond production..

Himachal Pradesh State Report

Introduction.

Himachal Pradesh is located in the northern region of India. The state is surrounded by Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and the south-west, Haryana on the south, Uttar Pradesh on the south-east, and China on the east.

At current prices, Himachal Pradesh’s gross state domestic product (GSDP) is estimated to be Rs. 2.14 trillion (US$ 25.92 billion) in 2023-24.The state’s GSDP (in Rs.) increased at a CAGR of 8.16% between 2015-16 and 2023-24.

Total exports from Himachal Pradesh stood at US$ 2,147.46 million in FY22, and US$ 909.47 million in FY23 (until August 2022).

As of April 2023, Himachal Pradesh had a total installed power generation capacity of 4,489.90 MW, comprising 2,030.19 MW under private utilities, 1,062.21 MW (state utilities) and 1,397.50 MW (central utilities). Himachal Pradesh has immense potential for hydropower as it is naturally blessed with abundant streams and rivers flowing down from towering mountains.

The State Government of Himachal Pradesh offers a wide range of policy and fiscal incentives for businesses under the Industrial Policy, 2017. The state has also undertaken other policies such as Tourism Policy 2005 and IT Policy 2001 for upgradation of these sectors in the state. Himachal Pradesh has announced a Revised Solar Policy 2016, under which it plans to establish 700 MW of solar photovoltaic cell capacity.

Himachal Pradesh will have the world’s longest and highest tunnel by 2025, which will connect Zanskar Valley in Ladakh to Lahaul in Himachal Pradesh, and will be 4.25 km in length.

According to the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), the cumulative FDI inflows in Himachal Pradesh were valued at US$ 194.86 million between October 2019-March 2023.

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In October 2022, Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi flagged the new Vande Bharat Express from Amb Andaura, Una to New Delhi.
In October 2022, Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of two hydropower projects in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh - the 48 MW Chanju-III Hydro-electric Project and the 30 MW Deothal Chanju Hydro-electric Project. Combined, these will generate 270 million units of electricity yearly.
In October 2022, Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the Bulk Drug Park at Haroli in Una district, which will be built at a cost of Rs. 1,900 crore (US$ 231.35 million) and provide employment to more than 20,000 people.
In September 2022, in accordance with the National Education Policy, the Himachal Pradesh Cabinet approved the Himachal Pradesh Early Childhood Care and Education Tutor Scheme-2022 for children in government primary schools between the ages of 3 and 6.
In July 2021, Sonalika Group invested Rs. 200 crores (US$ 26.93 million) in Himachal Pradesh to build India's largest harvester manufacturing facility.
Amidst the current rabi season in June 2021, Himachal Pradesh procured a record 1,00,657 quintals of wheat.
Agriculture is the main occupation and the major source of employment in the state, as 89.96% of the population lives in rural areas. With suitable agro-climatic conditions, Himachal Pradesh has realised the importance of commercial crops, including off-season vegetables, potatoes and ginger. To increase production of foodgrains, emphasis has been laid on distribution of seeds of high-yielding varieties to the farmers. During 2020-21, 1,340 hectares of additional area was envisaged to bring under fruit plants, against which 2,589 hectares of area has already been brought under plantation.
In March 2022, the Central Government approved Rs. 108 crore (US$ 13.95 million) for the Integrated Digital Agriculture Platform in Himachal Pradesh, which will increase in-house capability in supplying farmers with information and communication technologies (ICT)-based services, saving administrative time and enhancing efficiency.
Himachal Pradesh is one of the fastest-growing regions in the pharmaceutical industry in India, driven by incentives announced by the state Government in its Industrial Policy, 2004. In FY22, drug formulations and biologicals exports from Himachal Pradesh stood at US$ 975.08 million, which accounted for 45.4% of the total exports.
In September 2022, the central government sanctioned the Urban Transport Ropeway Project worth Rs. 1,546.4 crore (US$ 187.92 million) for Shimla in Himachal Pradesh.
In April 2022, the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Himachal Pradesh government signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) for the development of a Greenfield Airport in Nagchala, located in the district of Mandi in Himachal Pradesh. The project is estimated to cost around Rs. 900 crore (US$ 116.24 million), excluding the cost of land.
In April 2022, National Highways Logistics Management Limited (NHLML) and the Himachal Pradesh government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on for seven ropeway projects in the state under the Parvatmala Yojna at a total cost of Rs. 3,232 crore (US$ 417.44 million). The project will cover a total length of 57.1 km.

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Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi attended the groundbreaking ceremony for 287 projects valued over US$ 3.76 billion in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh.

To help weavers, Mr. Piyush Goyal advocates for aggressive measures to modernise design, quality, packaging, and marketing in order to improve product pricing in the global market.

In Himachal Pradesh, Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi interacts with healthcare professionals and participants of the Covid immunisation programme.

Food Corporation of India supplies 31.80 LMT free food grains to a States/ UTs under PMGKAY scheme.

Raksha Mantri, Mr Rajnath Singh dedicated 44 major permanent bridges, to provide better connectivity to remote areas across seven states and union territories. He also laid the Foundation Stone for Nechiphu Tunnel in Arunachal Pradesh.

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Himachal Pradesh: Tourism booms in 2022 as tourist footfalls increase by 62%

The tourism sector in himachal pradesh has made a strong comeback with a 62 percent increase in tourist arrival in 2022 to 1.51 crore, driven by aggressive targeted marketing efforts and popular destinations like dharamsala, shimla, kullu-manali, and ancient shiva temples..

Investigating and analyzing the causality amid tourism, environment, economy, energy consumption, and carbon emissions using Toda–Yamamoto approach for Himachal Pradesh, India

Published: 14 December 2023

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Keerti Manisha ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5362-5416 1 , 2 ,
Inderpal Singh 1 &
Vishal Chettry 3

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Himachal Pradesh is a preferred tourist destination with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 10.76% between 2011–12 and 2020–21. The increasing trend of CAGR has boosted the tourism economy in the state while impacting the local environment. The negative impacts have recently increased due to changes in climatic patterns and increased tourism influx during the post-pandemic period. In this context, the present study analyzed the impact of tourism on the environment, economy, and energy consumption using the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. The novelty of this study is to the existing literature on sustainable tourism development through investigating the interrelationship between tourism, environment, economy, energy consumption, and carbon emissions by employing the Toda–Yamamoto (TY) technique. This study will be a pioneering scientific investigation with quantitative results in the western Himalayan states of India, encompassing Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh. The annual data for each variable, such as per capita carbon emission (CEP), per capita Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP), per capita GSDP square, per capita energy consumption (ECP), and per capita tourism receipts (TRP), was collected from 2010 to 2021. This study exhibited an inverted-U EKC in the state, signifying the initial stage of economic development and extensive exploitation of natural resources for tourism. The TY results indicated an inter-causal relationship and feedback association among the variables in the study area. Thus, increased TRP would lead to an upsurge in energy consumption affecting the environmental quality due to increased carbon emissions. Such environmental degradation in the state would negatively impact the tourism sector in the long run. The research findings would guide planners and policymakers in promoting sustainable tourism.

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The datasets analyzed in this study were gathered from government offices in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. The dataset collected for this study are in the form of annual data spanning from 2010 to 2021. The variables considered are: Per capita carbon emissions from the Directorate of Energy in Shimla, Per capita GSDP and Per capita squares GSDP from economic survey reports (Directorate of Economics & Statistics, H.P.), Per capita energy consumption from the Directorate of Energy in Shimla, and Per capita tourism receipts from Department of Tourism and Civil Aviation in Shimla. The data can be made available upon a reasonable request.

Abbreviations

Augmented Dickey–Fuller test

Applied autoregressive distributed lag

Association of Southeast Asian nations

Compound annual growth rate

Per capita carbon emission

Conference of parties

Coronavirus disease of 2019

Cross-sectional autoregressive distributed lag

Corporate social responsibility

Cumulative sum

Dynamic autoregressive distributed lag

Department of tourism and civil aviation

Error correction model

Per capita energy consumption

Error correction term

Ecological footprint

Environmental Kuznets curve

Economic policy uncertainty

European union

Foreign development index

Govind Ballabh Pant National Institute of Himalayan environment (NIHE)

Gross domestic product

Per capita gross state domestic product

Null hypothesis

Alternate hypothesis

Himachal Pradesh tourism development corporation

India brand equity foundation

Indian Himalayan region

Indian institute of advanced studies

Mean sea level

National green tribunal

National institution for transforming India

Organization of the petroleum exporting countries

Per capita GSDP

Principal component analysis

Per capita GSDP square

Panel corrected standard errors

Panel mean group autoregressive distributed lag

Quantile autoregressive distributed lag approach

Standard deviation

Sustainable development goals

Schwarz information criterion

The energy and resources institute

Per capita tourism receipts

Time-varying coefficient

Toda and Yamamoto

United Nations climate change conference

United Nations world tourism organization

United States dollar

United States–Mexico–Canada agreement

Union territories

Vector autoregressive model

Wavelet local multiple correlation

World travel and tourism council

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Amid tourist boom in Himachal, HPTDC makes a profit of ₹ 5.82 crore in two months

In april and may, when the country was in the grip of an unprecedented heat wave, around 40 lakh tourists flocked to the hill state..

As tourists make a beeline for the colder climes of Himachal Pradesh to escape the sweltering summer heat, the tourist boom has reversed the fortunes of the hill state’s Covid beleaguered tourism industry with the Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (HPTDC) turning a profit of ₹ 5.82 crore in two months.

In April and May, when the country was in the grip of an unprecedented heat wave, around 40 lakh tourists flocked to the hill state. In these two months alone, 71 HPTDC-run hotels, restaurants and cafes earned ₹ 5.82 crore, registering an approximately seven fold increase against the peak tourist season (May and June) in 2019, when the HPTDC turned a profit of ₹ 90 lakh.

Between April and June around 60 lakh tourists have already visited the hill state, with 18 lakh people visiting in April, 19 lakh in May and 21 lakh in June.

HPTDC director tourism and managing director Amit Kashyap says, “There has been a marked increase in the profit earned this year as compared to the pre-pandemic years. There has also been a surge in tourist arrivals.”

Domestic tourists’ preferred destination

While Himachal, which is also called the Land of Gods, attracts a large number of domestic tourists, not many foreigners include it in their travel itinerary. However, this year, the state hosted fewer visitors from Maharashtra, Gujarat and West Bengal as the majority of tourists from these areas now prefer to travel to Jammu and Kashmir. Himachal draws the maximum tourists from the northern states of Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh.

HPTDC is also taking a slew of initiatives to attract tourists. “We have been holding camps and participating in tourism conclaves. Our officers have visited Maharashtra, Gujarat and the northeastern states to promote the hill state as an attractive tourist destination,” said Kashyap.

Nand Lal Sharma, the assistant general manager of Hotel Holiday Home, a flagship HPTDC hotel in Shimla, says, “We have made changes to the menu, upskilled our staff, including our chefs, and improved the cleanliness standard.”

Peaceful environs attract tourists

Over the weekend (June 25-26), a five to six hour traffic jam was seen at the Shimla-Kalka highway with 24,000 vehicles entering the hill state. Ask tourists what brings them to the state and they list Himachal’s clean hillsides and peaceful environment. A tourist from Punjab, Amarjeet Singh, said, “We are here for a pre-wedding photo shoot. We are enjoying the pleasant weather so much, that we have extended our stay so as to visit Kufri and other tourist destinations outside the city limits.”

Sanjay Kumar of Delhi, who was visiting the state with his seven friends, said, “We are visiting the Queen of Hills after seven years. Though the city has undergone a lot of developement, it is still quaint and refreshing. We will be staying here for four to five days.”

Meanwhile, Himachal Pradesh Tourism Stakeholder Association president Mohinder Seth said, “We only saw 100% occupancy for 10 -15 days that too on a discounted rate. However, this is much better than 2020 when occupancy was nil due to Covid induced lockdowns and travel expenditures. At least, we are able to meet our fixed expenditure.”

Tourism economy in Himachal amounts to ₹ 11,000 crore and contributes to 7.3% of the state’s gross domestic product (GDP). In 2019, around 17 lakh tourists, of which 4 lakh were foreigners, had visited the state, a jump of nearly 5% as compared to 2018. The state has around 4,011 hotels, 828 restaurants, 4,400 travel agents, and 2,934 homestays. HPTDC runs 54 hotels and 17 restaurants and cafes. After the lifting of restrictions 56 lakh tourists had visited the state in 2021.

Gaurav Bisht heads Hindustan Times’ Himachal bureau. He covers politics in the hill state and other issues concerning the masses. ...view detail

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Tour operators in Himachal Pradesh demand packages to revive industry post Covid

Those involved with small business units in the capital, Shimla, had mixed expectations from the Budget, which will be presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Local travel agents and hoteliers’ said they want special budgetary provisions in the field of tourism, which contributes signifuicantly to the state GDP.

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