• Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the ‘Seema Darshan’ tourism project at Nadabet along the India-Pakistan border in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district.

• It is a border viewing point on the India-Pakistan international boundary on the lines of the one at Wagah in Punjab.

• Shah said that ‘border tourism’ will help boost border security and connect citizens to BSF personnel, instilling a feeling of respect towards them.

Features of the project:

• The project has several attractions, including the ‘Beating Retreat’ ceremony, on the lines of the exercise held on the Wagah-Attari border in Punjab.

• The Rs 125 crore tourism project aims to offer citizens an opportunity to see first hand the lifestyle of BSF personnel deployed at the Indo-Pak border to protect the country. 

• Tourist facilities and special attractions at the site include arrival plazas, a lounge, parking facilities, an auditorium with a seating capacity of 500 people, a changing room, shops and restaurants, a ‘Sarhad Gatha’ exhibition centre and museum and solar tree.

• A monument, titled ‘Ajay Prahari’, has been erected at the site in the memory of soldiers who sacrificed their lives while protecting the nation. 

• Tourists will also be able to see various weapons of the Indian Army and BSF, such as surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, T-55 tanks, artillery guns, torpedoes, wing drop tanks and MiG-27 aircraft.

• Such a tourism project in Gujarat will help generate employment and stop migration of people from border villages.

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