Our Union Budget 2025 is reflective of our PM Shri Narendramodi’s commitment towards the preservation and promotion of our cultural heritage and civilisational inheritance. It also underscores A new central sector scheme National Mission for Manuscripts, the Gyan Bharatam Mission for Survey, Documentation and Conservation of our Manuscripts heritage that covers more than 1 crore manuscripts, the setup of a National Digital Repository of Indian Knowledge system among others testify our government’s commitment to ensure we stay rooted & preserve and promote our Virasat as we make strides towards ViksitBharat. From the Tourism perspective, this budget reiterates our commitment in fostering a robust and dynamic tourism ecosystem. Top 50 tourist destinations will be developed in collaboration with the state govts, and hotels in these destinations will be added to the infrastructure harmonised list. This alongwith provision of intensive skill development programs for our youth, MUDRA loans for home stays and hospitality sector, performance-linked incentives to states, streamlined E-visa facilities along with visa fee waivers for certain tourist groups to boosting Medical tourism and ‘Heal in India’, that our ViksitBharatBudget will strengthen our infrastructure as well as engage our people as active partners of the massive growth that the industry is set to witness as all roads lead to Bharat in the coming years.