Which of the following centres in Bihar is proposed to develop under Vishnupad Yojana for promotion of tourism in Union Budget 2024 ?
Gaya
The Vishnupad temple corridor is at Gaya — option 4.
What the Budget announced. The Union Budget for 2024-25 announced support for the comprehensive development of two temple corridors in Bihar, to be modelled on the Kashi Vishwanath Temple Corridor at Varanasi :
| Corridor | Place |
|---|---|
| Vishnupad Temple Corridor | Gaya |
| Mahabodhi Temple Corridor | Bodh Gaya |
The same announcement covered the development of Rajgir — with its hot springs, the Saptarishi complex and the Jain temples — and the revival of Nalanda as a tourist centre alongside the restored Nalanda University. That is why options 1 and 2 are such strong distractors: they belong to the same paragraph of the Budget speech, but under a different head. Only the Vishnupad corridor is at Gaya.
About the temple. The Vishnupad temple on the bank of the Falgu river at Gaya is built around a footprint said to be that of Vishnu, imprinted in rock. Its present structure was built by Rani Ahilyabai Holkar of Indore in 1787. Gaya is the principal centre in India for pind daan, the rite performed for one’s ancestors, and the Pitrupaksha Mela held there each year draws lakhs of pilgrims over a fortnight.
Why such corridors are built. The model is to acquire and clear the congested lanes around a major shrine, and to provide broad approaches, facilities for pilgrims, sanitation and parking — on the reasoning that religious tourism generates local employment on a large scale and needs relatively little capital compared with other forms of industry, which matters for a state such as Bihar.
Hence, the answer is Gaya.
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