Tourism Ministry all geared up to meet CWG demands: Selja

Union Tourism Minister Kumari Selja has said her ministry was all geared up to meet the demands of the coming Commonwealth Games.

''All arrangements pertaining to the security are being looked into at a larger level, particularly of the tourists,'' she said.

Ms Selja, while interacting with the newspersons here today, said the proposals for the uplift of many tourist spots in Haryana had also been received and the Union government was in the process of developing some of them.

Lambasting the incident of rape of the Russian girl, she said these kind of incidents needed to be dealt with strictness and stopped with an iron hand.

On the defeat of the ruling Congress in the Ellanabad byelection, she remarked,''The seat was not with the Congress, so It has not lost anything.'' Suggestion from the state governments had been invited for the speedy implementation of the Rajiv Gandhi Awas Yojna which was aimed at providing houses to the poor in the urban areas, she added.