Can Ayodhya be India's biggest tourist hotspot?

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₹15,000 crore. Plus, investments placed at some ₹85,000 crore have reportedly been planned under a master plan that goes till 2031. The town and its amenities will have to be scaled up if it is to host the numbers envisioned.

Some sceptics have sought to make a distinction between a remade Ayodhya, given its modern history, and other pilgrimage spots with a long record of visits in living and ancestral memory. In a critical way, however, it is a matter of capacity, which is constrained by location in many other cases, be it a constraint of altitude or river-bank length. Among the spots that have gotten swarmed over by pilgrims and cannot be overbuilt, given ecological risks, think of Kedarnath after Modi’s visits.

Or the ghats of Banaras. Such places are not only less accessible than Ayodhya, the latter’s big infra build-up is widening the gap. Say’s Law, which roughly says that supply creates its own demand, could boost religious tourism, a high-potential segment.

Figuratively, Ayodhya is a confluence of faith, politics and commerce. And just as Chandigarh was in some key ways a symbol of Nehru’s national vision, Ayodhya is of Modi’s. And it’s still unfolding.