Pong wetland to be tourism hub

• The state government is all set to harness the tourism potential of the Pong wetland, a Ramsar site, situated in the lower Kangra hills.
• Water sports activities will be started here to attract more tourists.
• The Centre has approved Rs 145-crore Pong Lake Ecotourism Development Project of the Asian Development Fund (ADB) for promoting tourism in the wetland area.
• Another Rs 67-crore tourism project was also under the Centre’s consideration, which was likely to be cleared soon.

About Pong dam

• The Pong Dam, also known as the Beas Dam, is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Beas River in the Kangra district in Himachal Pradesh.
• The purpose of the dam is water storage for irrigation and hydroelectric power generation.