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Height Of Selfie-Ness: BSF To Build A Three-Storey Tower Near Pakistan Border So Tourists Can Click Pictures
Swarajya Staff
Sep 18, 2018, 04:24 PM | Updated 04:24 PM IST
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The Border Security Force (BSF) is planning to build a ‘selfie tower’ for tourists at India-Pakistan border, Times of India has reported. The tower will come up at ‘zero point’ which is located 25 km from Nadabet in Suigam district of Gujarat. The location of the tower is less than 150 m from the Indo-Pakistan border fence.
Experience #SeemaDarshan at zero point of Nadabet border, has already been visited by over one lakh tourists, and return with your head held high and with a rejuvenated spirit pic.twitter.com/WHt4ifTyiK
— CMO Gujarat (@CMOGuj) July 10, 2018
Tourists will be able to take a selfie with the border fence in the backdrop. Beyond the fence, tourists can also see the village Balotra of Nagarparkar district. The state government had organised a ‘Seema Darshan’ (border sightseeing) two years ago. The number of tourists to ‘zero point’ has been on the rise.
“The state government has started constructing the selfie tower in collaboration with the BSF to promote tourism under the Seema Darshan programme,” BSF Inspector General, Gujarat, G S Malik, told Times of India. The Sarpanch of Suigam, Vihaji Rupani, said two more selfie towers have been planned.
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