Nashik has a potential for becoming a big specialized tourism area catering to various products of religious, wine, adventure and rural tourism. Also proximity to metros like Mumbai and Pune and availability of road, rail and air services make Nashik a center of attraction for various types of tourists. There are great chances to enhance the livelihood and employment creation capabilities of Nashik tourism due to the hard working local population aided with the huge tourist influx from all over India. So we strongly believe that Nashik has the potential to be the number one tourism district in the country and NCF is perusing this goal by insisting a special tourism development policy for Nashik should be formulated and implemented through an integrated development plan
This topic has been on the forum's agenda since its inception. The Traffic Discipline Movement is part of this agenda. The issues dealt with under it are the follow up for installation of traffic signals instead of traffic islands and also to put CCTV cameras there for surveillance, planning of streets which will be having cycle tracks, footpaths, parking lots as well as bus and LMV lanes for smooth and hassle-free traffic on roads, helmet awareness campaign. At present, the forum aims to improve traffic at major intersections in the city, remove black spots on roads and pursue flyovers at key locations in the city keeping in mind future needs.
Free wood is provided for cremation by Nashik Municipal Corporation. Naturally, people are more inclined to cremate using wood. In fact, using wood for cremation is economically and environmentally costly. Both the felling of trees for wood and the pollution caused by its burning are detrimental to the environment. Keeping this in mind, the forum is striving to increase the number of eco-friendly cremations in Nashik. To make this happen, the forum is raising demands to stop providing free wood for cremation and charge it, to provide eco-friendly alternatives like Mokshkashth, Gaukashth or Gowry instead of wood for cremation, to start an incentive scheme to encourage electric and diesel funerals.
