Will be powerful voice of Amritsar in Delhi: Jaitley

Jaitley said Amritsar is known as a historical city with great religious importance and was also an erstwhile trading centre and thus needs to be developed further.

“Amritsar people want the border trade to begin. The economy of Amritsar depends on border trade. Amritsar has to become a tourism hub. You have to create a tourism infrastructure.

“You have to create a city-based infrastructure which Amritsar indeed should have,” he said listing out the sewage, water pipelines, quality of roads, quality of ‘sarais', guest houses and hotels, on which the infrastructure will depend.

Jaitley said Amritsar at one stage was known for a certain category of products like textiles and was also a manufacturing hub for them.

“So we do have to take a special effort to revive the manufacturing potential of Amritsar and that is what I have in my mind,” he said.