00:00The opening up of railways, we have seen lots and lots of people coming into the program.
00:05We don't want to compare ourselves with the bigger states, but we are comparing ourselves with our own figures of the previous year.
00:14I have a figure with me which has been presented as recently as this morning,
00:21that we have now the final figure of the tourists coming in for the calendar year 2025.
00:28If you compare with the bigger states, it doesn't look very big, but we have 8 lakhs, 29,838 domestic tourists, 8,29,838.
00:468 lakhs, 29,838 domestic tourists coming into Missouri last calendar year 2025.
00:53And the foreign tourists, foreign visitors, 11,484.
00:5911,484.
01:01If we compare this figure with the previous year, the rise is more than 123.86%.
01:11So if you see the growth rate, you can feel that Mizoram is the next tourist destination of India.
01:19We want to make Mizoram as the winter capital of India.
01:22I will explain this, I mean, I will expand this a little bit because in Mizoram what we do is,
01:29we organize winter festival which was greatly successful last year.
01:34We are going to make it even bigger.
01:36We claim ourselves as the Christmas capital of India.
01:41If you visit Aizor, and I invite all the journalists to come to Aizor,
01:45we can make a special plan for that for the journalists from Assam to visit Aizor,
01:51which is called the Silent City.
01:54If you look at the traffic discipline, if you look at the drivers there,
01:58it's a no-home king city, where all the drivers are in lane.
02:03It is one of the most peaceful states, even the most peaceful.
02:07And how do you visit Aizor?
02:09How do you visit Mizoram?
02:11It's just one evening away from the railway station of Gohati.
02:17But to visit Mizoram, you need to obtain what we call it as an inner line permit.
02:21The place where you can have it is the very place where you are in,
02:25the Mizoram house, GS Road, Gohati.
02:29This is the tourist felicitation center for government of Mizoram.
02:33You will have to get yourself registered under the inner line permit.
02:39And after that, as a citizen of India, you can go to every corner of Mizoram.
02:45I have so many handwritten, ready-made materials with me.
02:49As I said, I used to sit on that site.
02:53And the journalists, we have a very, very short attention span.
02:57So I will not read all the details which I have here with me.
03:01But I do believe that with your support,
03:04with the support of the journalists of Assam,
03:06we can make Mizoram an even bigger destination for tourists in the country.
03:12Because it's a virgin line.
03:13When we talk about tourism in northeast India,
03:16people speak about the Ziranga, the One Bill Festival,
03:19maybe the Zero Festival of Arunachal Prajus,
03:22and the Chirapunjis.
03:24But we do have a virgin land,
03:26which is just 40 minutes away from Gohati Airport,
03:30and which is just one evening away from Gohati Trade Station,
03:34which is a virgin land for tourists.
03:36And I have just received an information that more than 80% of the tourists
03:41are visiting IZOL through these offices
03:44are from the state of Assam.
03:47So we have seen a lot of people from Assam coming into Mizoram as a tourist.
03:52This time we invite you to Mizoram,
03:55number one,
03:56to participate in the IZOL International Half Marathon on the 14th of February,
04:00and to stay back and visit the beautiful, beautiful land of Mizoram.
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