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| October 10, 2009 | Change of Guard at Rashtrapati Bhavan a tourist attraction | | New Delhi: Over 1,000 people congregated on the lawns of the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Saturday to watch the traditional 'Changing of the Guard' ceremony. The ceremony was open
for the general public to view two years ago in 2007 when Pratibha Patil became
the new President. Now, the administration of the Rashtrapati Bhavan want to take
the 'Changing of the Guard' ceremony one step further-to add it on the world tourism
map. They want the ceremony to be on tourists' itinerary and thereby promote tourism
in the country. "We are happy that about one thousand people came to see the ceremony.
The aim programme is to show it from a tourism point of view. We want to include
it in the tourism map," said Christy Fernandes, Secretary to the President. The
Rashtrapati Bhavan administration hopes that the ceremonial splendour will help
in attracting tourists. Scores of people had gathered at the lawns to see the
15th Battalion of the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles replacing the 6th Battalion of
the Assam Rifles, who have completed their duty as the Army guard at the Rashtrapati
Bhavan. This tradition of ceremonial Changing of Guard dates back to the raising
of the President's Bodyguards with 50 handpicked Horsemen in 1773, then called
'The Guards of Moguls', at Banaras by the then Governor, Warren Hastings. | |
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