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16.6.3. Safety, Cleanliness, Hygiene and Public Conveniences
State Governments and Local Governments have a key role in ensuring Safety of 
tourists at the destinations and during the travel. Similarly, cleanliness, hygiene and 
public conveniences are required to be provided by the State Government and Local 
Governments. The Ministry of tourism will work with the States and Destinations 
towards assessment and ranking of the destinations on these parameters and 
encourage healthy competition amongst the States/ destinations. 
16.6.4. State Perspective Plan and Destination Master Plans
The Ministry of Tourism has to work with the States in preparing a perspective plan 
for the State, master planning of destinations and their development. The Ministry 
will lay down framework for preparing perspective plans and master plans. The 
Ministry will support in preparing these plans. The Ministry will also support 
development of some of the destinations.
16.6.5. Ranking of the States and Destinations 

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The Ministry of Tourism will conduct ranking of the States and destination on various 
parameters, with the key objective to foster competitiveness and encourage States 
and Destinations to work proactively towards promoting and developing sustainable 
and responsible tourism. It will be implemented as a capacity development exercise 
to encourage mutual learning among all states and to provide support in policy 
formulation and implementation. The broad areas and action points for ranking 
exercise will be taken from global rankings of countries in various aspects of tourism 
with suitable adaptation.
The assessment and ranking exercise will be carried out with professional support 
and through independent experts from various Institutions both Government and 
Private. The Ministry of tourism will provide necessary training to the officials and 
other stakeholders and handhold the States for their participation in the exercise.