Raipur, CGNews: Bastar is called ‘Kashmir of Chhattisgarh’. A K 47 of terrorists and explosions by them hit the tourism of Kashmir since last more than two decades. Now Naxalites do the same bloody act in the Bastar.

Due to Naxal Maoist bloodbath throughout the year 2007, there is a sharp drop in the number of New Year revelers in the Bastar as due to terrorist tourism of J & K is always affected.

As reported by NGO Rakesh Agrawal of Kalasangam, Bastar:

Opposite to this New Year Eve of 2007 about 8,000 people had gone to various tourist spots for New Year celebrations, of which 80 percent visited Bastar.

Naxal terror due to the bloodbath of Security forces and innocent tribes by them including the jail break in Dantewada by which hundred prisoners Maoist with 200 others made themselves free and runaway.  

Overall, about 95 percent of the Maoist violence in the state has been recorded in the Bastar region, which is spread over some 40,000 sq km in five districts. The violence has resulted in some 300 deaths, including 202 policemen, this year.

Kashmir of Chhattisgarh

Bastar is the Land of Tribals and Natural Resources. It is surrounded with dense forests, hilly mountains, streams, waterfalls, natural caves, natural parks etc. It is firmly a tribal area, where the natural beauty can easily attract the tourists at first sight itself. Here the art & culture is the valuable ancient property of the Bastarias.  From the view point of tourists and tourism, Bastar is called the 'Kashmir of Chhattisgarh'. If we place Bastar in the map of tourism, no doubt it definitely attracts the foreign tourists .